The love of fame puts spurs to the mind

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 know, ” he says, and it’s the strangest thing. I can tell he’s smiling, slow and syrupy, when he says it.

Peppo!" I yelled, pulling at my cousin's suspenders. "I really don't want to be arrested, okay?" "Don't worry!" Peppo turned a corner and accelerated as he spoke. "I go too fast for police!

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

I think this whole celebrity world is weird anyway. Weird and funny and kind of pathetic and yet so right for parody.

Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.

Only if I could be known for being one of the world's greatest and most sincere Christian Evangelists.

In other words, knowledge of the external world begins with an immediate utilisation of things, whereas knowledge of self is stopped by this purely practical and utilitarian contact.

God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision.

A public is a necessary fiction.

I wish that I could marshall all the young to an appreciation of the fact that you have an earnest work in life and your amusements and recreations are only to help you along in that work.