Women's words are as light as the doomed leaves whirling in autumn, Easily swept by the wind, easily drowned 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.

Annie believed taste and aromas had the power to transport people from the present to other places. Sometimes this was a journey to a different mood, but it was also a form of time travel.

There's going to be positive and negative in anything in life.

When you pray, you are not starting the conversation from scratch, just remembering to plug back into a conversation that's always in progress.

When you raise an animal, you live it like your own child.

In some sense, gravity does not exist; what moves the planets and the stars is the distortion of space and time.

In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.

Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

I love my job very much, and I don't think I would change it. In fact, I know I wouldn't, because I can't do anything else.

In living we die, in dying we live.