My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope. [Lat., Et res non semper, spes mihi semper adest.]

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.

One says the things which one feels the need to say, and which the other will not understand: one speaks for oneself alone.

The notion of the perfect time is more than myth. It's the ultimate self-delusion.

The desire to touch her, to kiss her would end up with her walking away and him hurting again. So why the hell did he reach up and stroke her cheek with the back of his knuckle?

No matter how many women I’ve kissed over the years, your lips are the ones that still haunt me.

You are your own best friend. Listen to yourself more often than someone else.

Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows - dear stench.

There is a big problem. The problem is the country borrowed too much. We went on a borrowing binge, there was a housing boom. You want to help people de-leverage and deal with those debts over time.

I'm moderately optimistic. We Americans are an enormous country with more than 300 million people so there's reason for optimism.

The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.

We need to be preaching a dynamic Gospel and living firecracker lives.