The mind ill at ease, the body suffers also.

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.

Just the night before, a puma’s howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn’t get any richer than that.

Life keeps throwing me curve balls and I don't even own a bat. At least my dodging skills are improving.

What more you expect from a nation that honors a barbarian.

Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

Every Morning You Have Two Choices: Continue To Sleep With Your Dreams, Or Wake Up and Chase Them.

I got started at a really young age. I was about two years old when I started playing the piano and around seven or eight when I started writing my own chords and putting words together.

My obsessions used to be my protectors, but now they have taken me prisoner.