Simplicity is a jewel rarely found.

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 don't want him to hurt like I'm hurting. I don't want him to miss me like I'll miss him. I don't want him to be falling for me like I've been falling for him.

Pick my left pocket of its silver dime but spare the right-it holds my golden time!

As priests uphold their people in prayer, so their people are to uphold them with prayer and love, for he cannot work without his people.

The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure.

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Shave that jaw, brush that hair, tone down the crazy in the eyes, and he would have to fight women off with that crossbow.

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Paint the flying spirit of the bird rather than its feathers.

But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.