Remove the temptation of idleness and Cupid's bow is useless.

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 like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.

Hard work and focus and will would shape my future. Nothing was meant to be.

He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

Basically, I started on stage yelling and I kept yelling, and then I yelled some more, and then I yelled even louder. I'm modulated now.

This then is the first duty of an educator: to stir up life but leave it free to develop.

I think marriage is ghastly.

I like women who look like me. Generally, you're attracted to women who look like you, because the most beautiful thing in nature is your own reflection.

I have a strong sense that every project is an invention, which is not a word I hear being used in architecture courses