The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting his former wound resumes his arms.

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 don’t know that love is freedom. Rather, I think it’s more a force to preserve freedom.

May the Lord protect and keep you safe.

Without the patient, there is no healthcare.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Religion is made up of unrestrained wishes.

Love is a fever," she said. "And when you come out of it you'll discover whether you've been lucky - or not.

When you take my time, you take something I had meant to use.

There's plenty for me to do. There are more albums. I'll record as long as I can and as long as my voice works as well as it does now and for as long as people want to hear me.

A lot of times I wish I would have learned to read music, but I'm very impatient.

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.