The art of medicine in the season lies: Wine given in season oft will benefit, Which out of season injures.

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.

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.

You must be ready to give up even the most attractive ideas when experiment shows them to be wrong.

I wanna read a good paper first thing in the morning. And if I see a lie about myself flash across the front of the cover, I don't think much of the rest of the newspaper.

When I see things, I speak my mind. But I'm a quiet leader, if anything.

I'm very happy when I can find somewhere with some very good matzo ball soup, tasting exactly the same as the one my mother used to do for me.

Reading books about enlightenment does not make you enlightened at all. You have to meditate yourself.

If I had to give a definition of happiness, it would be this: happiness needs nothing but itself; it doesn’t have to be validated.

We know nothing about most the people around us, yet there is always a chance they could be hugely valuable to us

Cultures are virtual realities made of language.

In Russia one can be as pure as can be and still lose everything in a flash and end up in prison.