Man's last day must ever be awaited and none to be counted happy until his death, until his last funeral rites are paid.

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.

Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.

I don't regard clothing as disposable, which is probably why I have so much of it!

Often too many expectations are put on by society as to what we're supposed to look like and it's fed to people at an age that's too young.

In the present age doubt has become immune to faith and faith has dissociated itself from doubt.

I don't feel particularly courageous.

In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults

I recognise that Socialism has ended its purely theoretical course, and that the hour to construct has come.

I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t.

Nobody brings numbers to life like Horace Dediu does.

Those who help a child help humanity with an immediateness which no other help given to human creature in any other stage of human life can possibly give again.