Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

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.

Follow your heart. Then root its longing with the facts.

We are all looking for someone to save us.

Life is a gift and a challenge.

I play- it's kind of like a slice-of-life, LA women in their forties, playing forty kind of what's their friendship like, and what's their life like and so I just play one of the four friends.

Each soil has had its own history. Like a river, a mountain, a forest, or any natural thing, its present condition is due to the influences of many things and events of the past.

A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.

It doesn't take much to get me up for baseball. Once the National Anthem plays, I get chills. I even know the words to it now.

When your guru gives you a command, you better listen to it. I love everybody. Even George Bush.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

Things people say strike me as amusing, and I am prone to saying out loud what everybody's thinking.