Trivial losses often prove great gains.

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.

Every beautiful thought adorns your life with beauty and love.

Respect the burden.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

You must have a dragon hidden inside you. When you need, you let the dragon out.

That everything is on fire, slow fire, and we're all less than a million breaths away from an oblivion more total than we can even bring ourselves to even try to imagine.

I'm no lyrical stylist, you wouldn't pick me for a perfect sentence, and I certainly wouldn't describe my novels as intellectual.

Stroll into work at 10. Lunch from 12 till three. Leave work at five. That's living!

I'm cursed with this puritanical streak that makes me want everything to be about something. It's a terrible affliction.

I would do away with super PACs. I think it's a cancer.

[Answering the question 'If you had caused the end of the world, what would you do?'] I would try to fix it. I would go to bed on time and brush my teeth.