The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

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.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Venus favors the bold.

This week Sarah Palin's memoir became a bestseller. It's not even out yet. It's being translated into English.

We have to put in our time every day to try and achieve and learn so that we can develop our talents and each of you, thank goodness, have special talents; each of you are special persons.

I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really trust my instincts. I like to talk and talk and talk until we have to do it. I feel the same about theater.

I'm a former Red Sox fan, now fully rehabilitated.

Permitted to inhabit neither the realm of the ideal nor the realm of the real, to be neither aspiration nor companion, beauty comes to us like a fugitive bird unable to fly, unable to land.

People think of security as a noun, something you go buy. In reality, it's an abstract concept like happiness. Openness is unbelievably helpful to security.

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

I'm trying to maintain a level of realness that my fans can appreciate.

I pin my hopes to quiet processes and small circles in which vital and transforming events take place.

A thought must tell at once, or not at all.