Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

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.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Venus favors the bold.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.

The simple, daily influences of prayer, persuasion, and promoting of godly values are the most powerful tools a mother can use to unleash the potential of her children.

If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions.

I feel like I try to keep learning every time I step off a runway, I try to get better with each one.

Perhaps nothing is entirely true, not even this.

I think the darker aspect of my fiction-or anybody's fiction-is by its very nature somehow easier to talk about.

I am told to just be myself, but as much as I have practiced the impression, I am still no good at it.

A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement.

We don't really have more than acouple of solos. It's just the way our music is put together.