The least strength suffices to break what is bruised.

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.

As one becomes increasingly unsteady (restless), one increases entanglements.

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

The left has lost the common touch.

Your mother’s heartbeat is the first sound you ever hear and your own heartbeat is the last.

Sometimes when your child talks, your friends cannot understand what he says; but the mother understands very well. So if our prayer comes from the heart, God understands our language.

It is a difficult thing to like anybody else's ideas of being funny.

There's a fine line between fiction and non-fiction and I think I snorted it somewhere in 1979

Individuality is that which you bring into the world.

Courts are an aristocratic institution in a democracy. That's the dilemma for an institution that has the function of reviewing the will of the people. We're bound to be "anti-majoritarian."

The only thing I believe is individual responsibility doesn't mean the government is the answer to ever fear and every problem every individual has. We are the masters of our own destiny.