Time is the devourer of all things.

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.

One choice changes everything. The right choice changes your world.

He howled in despair as his body was enveloped by a terrifying and sickening darkness.

All of the important acts of creation and destruction involve the issuance of words and the application of signature.

Human beings love poetry. They don't even know it sometimes... whether they're the songs of Bono, or the songs of Justin Bieber... they're listening to poetry.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

We need to fall, and we need to be aware of it; for if we did not fall, we should not know how weak and wretched we are of ourselves, nor should we know our Maker's marvellous love so fully.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

I'm not sure how anyone with a soul can make jokes about the passing of one of the most talented artists this generation will see.

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.

She had read a wonderful play about a man who scratched on the wall of his cell and she had felt that was true of life — one scratched on the wall.