Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

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.

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.

Venus favors the bold.

Was this some new level of depravity? Had he developed a spinster fetish?

Your current life is the result of your previous choices, if you want something different, begin to choose differently.

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I'm somebody else.

Our enemy is not Islam. Islam is not the enemy of America; Americans are not the enemy of Islam. Our real enemy is extremism and radicalism.

If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time.

A war is never undertaken by the ideal state, except in defense of its honor or its safety.

If you paint a man leaning over your own back must ache

I sometimes wonder if our memories are a myth. We think we remember, but we are remembering the story and not the actual event?

We are being wiped off the face of this earth At an extremely alarming rate And even more alarming is the fact That we are not fighting back

How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!