What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

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.

Busy with the ugliness of the expensive success We forget the easiness of free beautyLying sad right around the corner, Only an instant removed, Unnoticed and squandered.

And I know an eighteenth charm, and that charm is the greatest of all, and that charm I can tell no man, for a secret that no one knows but you is the most powerful secret there can ever be.

What I want is, not to possess religion, but to have a religion that shall possess me.

An animal that embarks on forming states without greatly restricting egoism will perish.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

I personally translated the word 'vendetta' as Italian for 'What do you mean, "you want to see other women"?

Mortality is the most romantic story ever told. Just one chance to do everything you should. Then, magically, you move on.

My religion is, to live through Love.

If the men of property will not support us, they must fall. Our strength shall come from that great and respectable class, the men of no property

With a vegan diet you always have energy, so much that sometimes I have trouble sleeping at night. You feel light. You don't feel bulky or heavy. This would benefit any athlete in any sport.