When there is plenty of wine, sorrow and worry take wing.

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.

We want all the benefits of the resurrection without acknowledging our dependence on God as mortal creatures.

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

Wit is the salt of conversation not the food.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

American high schools have physically imprisoned young people, stripped them of civil liberties and fed them a diet of p.c. pap.

My greatest joy comes from teaching.

Creation begins with vision.

Suffered from alienation,carried the weight on my own,had to be so strong,so I believed,and now I know I've succeeded,in finding the place I conceived.

Everybody’s at war with different things…I’m at war with my own heart sometimes.