Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination. [Lat., Factis ignoscite nostris Si scelus ingenio scitis abesse meo.]

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.

You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.

Be selective in your battles...

A day in a man’s life is constructed according to whether he accepts or rejects flashes of inspiration.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

The more we deny ourselves, the more the gods supply our wants. [Lat., Quanto quisque sibi plura negaverit, A dis plura feret.]

You have to feel love to harness its power!

The attacks of September 11th were intended to break our spirit. Instead we have emerged stronger and more unified.

the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.

If you were a kangaroo you'd forget you've got a joey in your pouch.