The cause is hidden, but the result is known. [Lat., Causa latet: vis est notissima.]

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 run after her, not really giving chase. I’m running because I can, because I must.Because I want to see how far I can go before I have to stop.

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

If you want freedom you have to come to terms with being okay in the now doing nothing.

I stopped doing comics because I found the pressure really high to nail it every time. It's really difficult to be creative all the time.

It's better to embrace your roots than it is to fight it, because then you're just fighting something that you're not going to win. We're like a band of gypsies, and it makes sense.

Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is.

Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.

We are Physical, Mental and Spiritual beings. If you don't deal with ALL OF LIFE you're not going to get all that life has to offer.