What is hid is unknown: for what is unknown there is no desire. [Lat., Quod latet ignotum est; ignoti nulla cupido.]

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 cannot think that we are useless or God would not have created us.

Nuclear bombs have made mass murder a reality. Nuclear bombs threaten humankind.

The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.

Friends, if we be honest with ourselves, we shall be honest with each other.

This is my genre...the happiness, tragedies, and the sorrows of mankind as realized in the teeming black ghetto.

The images of his infinite pasts and infinite futures washed over him as he waited, paralyzed, in the present.

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.

My dad is a good dad.

I'm really disappointed at every event if I don't do less than what I wanted to do.

I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.