Fortune resists half-hearted prayers.

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.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, which is a pity because this week the National Association of Beholders wrote to tell me that I've got a face like a rucksack full of dented bells.

You are my dark turned to bright, the day into my light. A vision of splendour to my lights, light.

Feedback is an opinion, grounded in observations and experiences, which allows us to know what impression we make on others.

...when it comes time for punishment for our sins, surely it's only the person who's done wrong who's expected to pay?"Sister Agnes smiled, "Not even them, if they've accepted the Savior.

The masses are brainwashed to the point that they believe if an American grocery store or restaurant offers a particular food, it must be good and safe.

I am learning to be more vulnerable and open on stage. This comes with the development of my acting abilities.

There aren’t many sure things in life, but one thing I know for sure is that you have to deal with the consequences of your actions. You have to follow through on some things.

The bottom line is that we never fall for the people we're supposed to.

There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.

The theory which follows is entirely based on a calculus of pleasure and pain; and the object of economics is to maximize happiness by purchasing pleasure, as it were, at the lowest cost of pain.