What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

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.

You have to lose something to gain anything.

A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy

What the best novels and novelists do is to offer a different way of seeing.

Don't tell me what they did to you as though you had no choice. Tell me, isn't that your picture? Isn't that your voice.

It was my mom and I against the world. We lived in New York in this bohemian lifestyle where an extended group of artists and photographers were like my aunts and uncles.

My outlet is my music, and it's been this way since I was 4 years old.

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

Remember that a book is many drafts - mine certainly are. It's improvisation. It's as much jazz and the way we talk and the way I heard people preach coming up as it is writing.

"Shoe" just meant you were a big jock on campus no matter what field you were in.

Villainy, when detected, never gives up, but boldly adds impudence to imposture.