There is a certain pleasure in weeping

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.

​Let the lotus of your character be full-blown and the results will follow.

Life is about the journey, not the destination. As long as we persevere in mindful thinking, beliefs and actions, our internal compass will point us towards true-self each step of the way.

In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.

any criticism heard secondhand sounds worse than it would face to face. Words spoken out of our presence strike us as more powerful, just as people we know only by reputation seem larger than life.

You can make the case that slacktivism is important because it makes people feel affiliated to a movement and be part of it, and talk about it.

What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal: what there is to love in man is that he is a going-over and a going-under.

MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

This is what I know: people's hopes go on forever.

I was so wild and crazy and dumb in my car. It didn't run but 30 miles an hour. You made do.

The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.