My bark, once struck by the fury of the storm, dreads again to approach the place of danger.

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.

Well, I’d rather be unhappy than have the sort of false, lying happiness you were having here.

Our body talks to us, not in a language that you speak but the language that you feel

All is forgotten in the stone halls of the dead. These are the rooms of ruin where the spiders spin and the great circuits fall quiet, one by one...

If we could be pure dancers in spirit we would never be afraid to love, and we would love with strength and wisdom.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

Security lies in our ability to produce.

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

Love life's weariness leavens.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

The soul refuses limits and always affirms an optimism, never a pessimism.