The earth yields up her stores, of every ill The instigators; iron, foe to man, And gold, than iron deadlier.

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.

The more you know, the less you talk. The less you talk, the more you know.

If you stuck in the past, you won’t be able to step in the future!

Paco, we are all so much more than our faults, aren’t we?

To weigh and evaluate a vast grid of information, much of it meaningless, and to arrive at sensible, if erroneous, conclusions, is a skill not to be sneezed at.

My interest in secret societies is the product of many experiences, some I can discuss, others I cannot.

All works of art should begin... at the end.

It's funny, because I have periods where I just kind of go dark. I don't tweet, I don't talk, I don't interview, and then I have times where I do.

Adversity shows whether we have friends, or only the shadows of friends.

I try to stay pretty level-headed and just do what I have to do.

He thought her beautiful, believed her impeccably wise; dreamed of her, wrote poems to her, which, ignoring the subject, she corrected in red ink.