We do not bear sweets; we are recruited by a bitter potion.

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.

I didn’t want to cry in front of you.”He wiped away the tears with the pad of his thumb. in front of me.

We are living in a world where moral climates have no atmosphere.

You are not expected to know, but you are expected to wish to know.

As a person, I have a lot of different sides to me, and I genuinely just embrace them. I don't think, 'Oh, I gotta put on my cool face now!'

People need patience. It takes time to build a brand.

Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.

New ideas come into this world somewhat like falling meteors, with a flash and an explosion.

Light is therefore color.

I was messing around with the harmonica... but I was 13 before I got a real good note out of it.

He'll take some pleasure from that, Brian Carey. He and Steve Bull have been having it off all afternoon.