Of all the wild beasts of land or sea, the wildest is woman.

He who labors diligently need never despair for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

No just person ever became quickly rich.

He who labors diligently need never despair.

There are many wild beasts on land and in the sea, but the beastliest of all is woman.

If you want to live your whole life free from pain you must become either a god or else a corpse. Consider other men's troubles and that will comfort you.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

Let bravery be thy choice, but not bravado.

Being mortal, never pray for an untroubled life. Rather, ask the God to give you an enduring heart.

The character of a man is known from his conversations.

Nothing is more useful than silence.

I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!

Sharing our love is the highest form of bliss.

I gradually became aware that my interiority was inseparable from my exteriority, that the geography of my city was the geography of my soul.

If you truly love someone, he or she will never able to hurt you.

In any business that grows big on one business model, transitions can throw everything in the air.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.

Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.

That tuneful nymph, the babbling Echo.

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.