The crop always seems better in our neighbor's field and our neighbor's cow gives more milk.

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.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse.

Let's not cry about it, shall we, Marcy? Let's pray about it instead. A Passion Most Pure

When someone is crying, of course, the noble thing to do is to comfort them. But if someone is trying to hide their tears, it may also be noble to pretend you do not notice them.

Being superintendent or the superintendent's chief of staff is important work, but there's no chance it's as difficult as being a teacher, and I hesitate to say that it's as important.

When you really get technique... there is no strength that will stop you.

Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing.

Lovers don't meet in the end, they are in each other forever.

I love being an actor and a job is a job, and I'm always happy to have a job.

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.