Yield to him who opposes you; by yielding you conquer.

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.

You will suffer, son of Hades!’ What else is new? Nico thought.

What happens in you is more important than what happens to you.

She turned and bolted out the door. She had learnt an important lesson - "When a man paid 'for' you...you paid 'to' him." It was her first Valentine slaughter.

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

Learning to take hold of one's life is very difficult in a culture that values property over life.

The grass is always greener around the fire hydrant.

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization.

You cannot know, and become, that which you are, in the absence of that which you are not, as I have already explained to you.

There are certain things I just don't talk about - there are certain things that are private.

If I am to meet with a disappointment, the sooner I know it, the more of life I shall have to wear it off.