Love is an affair of credulity.

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.

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

We are never doing anyone any favors by withholding our gifts from the world. It's scary to be fierce, but you can't compromise that for fear of losing those around you.

A life whose beginning we do not remember, and whose end we do not know.

It's so much easier and cheaper to keep the river uncontaminated in the first place than it is to clean it up again once it's been polluted.

He's started anticipating what's going to happen before it's even happened.

I didn't want to look at them, so I looked away, and to look away was to look at Augustus.

Academic staff rather enjoy coming to conclusions, but they don't like coming to decisions at all.

My life is a creative act--like a painting, or a concerto.

Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.

People don't want to be millionaires - they want to experience what they believe only millions can buy.