Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

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.

He never went to war, yet he emerged from the smog and shadows victorious.

I'm never nervous when I go to meet heads of state. I feel they should be nervous, because they are the ones who'll be held accountable for the lives their decisions will impact the most.

Those who are quiet will always cause riots.

I don't die... He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone.

My professional aspirations were simple - I wanted to be an intergalactic princess.

Everyone of you got to where you are because someone influenced you.

I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.

It's hard to get out of the barrel. It's slippery around the edges and people are happy to see you fall back in.

Still all the tulkus being born are men.

For the first time perhaps since Margaret Thatcher, we will have at the head of the Conservative Party someone who is genuinely an equal match for Tony Blair.