Our native soil draws all of us, by I know not what sweetness, and never allows us to forget.

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.

Days come and go, but the only thing that remains within you are the lessons that you learn by each passing day.

Self-knowledge is better than self-control any day, " Raquel said firmly. "And I know myself well enough to know how I act around cookies.

A prayer makes sense only if it is lived.

Hong Kong represents the kind of Asia with which both West and East are comfortable... It offers, in that sense, a vision for the future of Asia.

If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.

Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.

I'd always walk my girlfriend home, i'm too protective!

If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.

In the ‘looks of disappointment’ department, my cat has picked up where my father left off.

I seemed busy, busy, busy, but I suppose, if pressed, I might have admitted that, for all my frenzy, I was very much alone.