Things which of themselves avail nothing, when united become powerful.

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.

Don't worry about the past and don't try to figure out the future

Where would you be without etymology'? Lea asked sarcastically.'I think I might find words a little less interesting, ' said Mr Ruche.

Curiosity is the hair of our habit tending to stand on end. It rarely happens that our attention is not stained in greater or lesser degree by this animal element.

What is debt anyway? A debt is just the perversion of a promise. It is a promise corrupted by both math and violence.

We are so absorbed in our thoughts that every thought that comes through is a reality. We have to start to detach ourselves from thought and become aware that there are things beyond thought.

When you're spending $200 million on a movie, you need to make $400 million to break even. It's a spectacle.

Self pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it is addictive, gives momentary pleasure and separates the victim from reality.

The temperature of the tropic oceans is warmer than it's been in 150 years

Why dispute what we shall be, when we know not even what we are.

Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.