Most safely shall you tread the middle path.

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.

Make project plan as simple as possible, but not simpler.

Americans would prefer that immigrants do their jobs and then disappear at the end of the day.

I feel the fluttering of dragonflies—summer creatures that have no use for words.

There are two kinds of suffering. There is the suffering you run away from, which follows you everywhere. And there is the suffering you face directly, and so become free.

Just because I believe in God, just because I have faith in God, it doesn't mean that I'm immune. It doesn't mean that I'm immortal.

To speak...means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

With whom do you argue? With a woman, of course. Not with a friend, because he accepted all your defects the moment he found you. Besides, woman is mother-have we forgotten?

The reason actors, artists, writers have agents is because we'll do it for nothing. That's a basic fact - you gotta do it.

I'm proud of the scars in my soul. They remind me that I have an intense life.