What follows I flee; what flees I ever pursue.

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.

That he had been born an artist—in all ways—a paragon of romantic torment out of the likes of some Brontë novel—has yet to make itselfknown to him. He watches himself unfold.

Does anybody think these people were just sitting around drinking tea?

We only confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no big ones.

I have memories of the clearest crystal mountain days imaginable, when we fortunates in the height seemed to be sky people living in light alone.

I'm just the kind of person who seems designed, probably by nature, to try to make a difference.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.

What strikes the oyster shell doesn't damage the pearl.

Betrayal of any kind is hard, but betrayal by one's religion is excruciating. It makes you want to rage and weep.

Every religion is good that teaches man to be good; and I know of none that instructs him to be bad.