Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.

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.

I'm not going anywhere, " she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

This is supposed to be a lighthearted session of symbolic document destruction, not a political debate.

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

You don't have to turn the Page, I read the Story, it ends with you and me.

We need a proper understanding of the past to correctly judge the present if we ever are to foretell the future.

Indulgence in resentment and vengeance will only further increase miseries to oneself and others in this life and in lives to come.

A second ago is gone, and a second from now might be. Now is all you've got. Go for it!

Bless everything in existence with your entire being and immediately you recognise your inner state of completeness and harmony.

The product Disney created actually changed a life, and that was significant to them. They didn't stand in my way at all.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.