We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

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.

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

I think love is blind. I hate to use that cliched statement, but people, when they love somebody, they seem to be able to somehow to put aside red flags.

Everything in the world displeases me: but, above all, my displeasure in everything displeases me.

The United States does not torture.

Everytime people said I was pretty, I thought of everything ugly swarming beneath my clothes.

Almost any mode of observation will be successful at last, for what is most wanted is method.

There is but one world common for those who are awake, but when men are asleep, each turns away into a world of his own.

When Guante started, they thought he'd be like popcorn, one of the most popular things around.

It's impossible to expect polite behavior from people who've never witnessed it.

Who falls from all he knows of bliss, Cares little into what abyss.