Love fed fat soon turns to boredom.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.

Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Love is no assignment for cowards.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.

Life as we know it, with all its ups and downs, will soon be over. We all will give an accounting to God of how we have lived.

Smooth and ordered on the outside; roiling and chaotic and desperately secretive underneath, but not noticeably so, never noticeably so.

... occasionally I see rich-looking women on Rollerblades gripping leashes and being towed bodily by golden retrievers. That's my kind of jogging.

Authentic needs are the needs that are always met by the Universe.

The man ignorant of mathematics will be increasingly limited in his grasp of the main forces of civilization.

If you only make fights that you're going to win, there would be no women's vote in America, there would be no civil rights laws in the country.

Dialogue starts with the willingness to challenge our own thinking, to recognize that any certainty we have is, at best, a hypothesis about the world.

I've been given an opportunity right now and I'm going to run through a wall to try to take advantage of it.

I'm really just a country boy.