Men should not care too much for good looks; neglect is becoming.

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.

A teacher is a sower of seed, a spiritual agriculturist, while he who teaches himself is the wise farmer of his own mental plot.

. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print.

Wars raged everywhere as men found new, inventive ways to kill even more of their race. It was like a contest, the many tribes of mankind competing to see who could commit the worst atrocities.

You're children. Don't you want a home, a family?" "With, like, vitamin-fortified cereal and educational television?

That's where the most beautiful art is always created, when you have someone not worried about what the outcome is.

We confide our secret to a friend, but in love it escapes us.

The more we learn to love and respect ourselves, the more we will become attracted to people who will love and respect us and who we can safely love and respect.

Go as far as you can. Go further than you can!