The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous. [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum: Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

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.

Welcome to your body.

I've been coming to Cambodia off and on, six months of the year usually.

But it is a delightful challenge to try to depict interesting aliens.

I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.

In the darkness, who would answer for the color of a rose, Or the vestments of the May moth and the pilgrimage it goes?

It is better to entertain an idea than to take home to live with you for the rest of your life.

There is a morphological enfoldment occurring on this planet. It is bringing forth some entirely new order of being. We are a privileged part of this.

You win the presidency by connecting with the American people's gut insecurities and aspirations. You win with a concept.

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.

We live in a very complex world.