Man looks aloft, and with erected eyes Beholds his hereditary skies.

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.

Existence is a series of footnotes to a vast, obscure, unfinished masterpiece.

A good laugh helps us recognize how ridiculous it is to get excited about matters that are often trivial. . . .

Power is what calls the shots, and power is a white male game.

The yearning for an afterlife is the opposite of selfish: it is love and praise for the world that we are privileged, in this complex interval of light, to witness and experience.

Don't let your feelings be a God to you.

Music makes a quiet mind.

The gifts of nature are infinite in their variety, and mind differs from mind almost as much as body from body.

They're my positive chaos, my children.

One should be intelligent enough to know when not to be too intellectual

When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home.