We have ploughed the vast ocean in a fragile bark.

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.

It is not by strength that one prevails. But by the grace of prayer in the spirit of perseverance.

You don't need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement.

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people.

The information I most want is in books not yet written by people not yet born.

What can I tell you about things like Circus of Horrors except that I get killed by the bear?

The fun, joy, and humor dry up in a relationship when one of the partners is swimming in gin. To my way of thinking, it is selfishness personified to see life through the bottom of a liquor bottle.

I began composing works which were imitative of the music I was being told about. I was also very interested in translating the music into visual terms.

Temperate anger well becomes the wise.

I am not a playwright. A playwright would take "Antigone" and hit it a few clouts and knock it out of shape and restructure it. My versioning was strictly verbal.

This is the political culture of the United States, which one should accept as is. The United States is a great country and it deserves non-interference and no third-party comments.