We praise times past, while we times present use; Yet due the worship which to each we give.

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.

Never accept what you don’t like to do.

I am shedding.I am not a new me.I am my old me in my new me.I remain, carved with the soul of my knife.My mess scattered all over my countenance. I am me. Take me as I am.

If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.

People respect unhappiness and find it especially hard to forgive success.

Liberals retain a totemic attachment to the Freudian idea that traumatic toilet training is destiny.

There must not only be good preaching, but good hearing.

You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.

When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

It's the most satisfying occupation man has discovered yet, because you never can quite do it as well as you want to, so there's always something to wake up tomorrow morning to do.