The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

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.

Compassion is not complete in itself, but must be accompanied by inflexible justice and wrath against sin and a desire for holiness.

Your computer monitor is a kind a one-way mirror, reflecting your own interests while algorithmic observers watch what you click.

Life is beautiful, what do you think? In the morning I say, 'Ah, I am alive still!' All my friends die already. I am alive. It is fantastic.

I had good innings, as the British say. I wrote for 38 years at the top of my form, and I wanted to quit on a high note.

If you don't believe that the world has a heart, then you won't hear it beating, you won't think it's alive and you won't consider what you're doing to it.

Zen is the study of mind in all of its manifestations. The purpose of Zen is to be happy.

And this is the beginning of the end.

For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state.

I succeeded in using my charms like a weapon; I learned to play with other's hearts and to master my own desires.

Ever since I was little it was programmed into me that London is where great theatre occurs and all the big shows you love start there.