The spirited horse, which will try to win the race of its own accord, will run even faster if encouraged.

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.

If I could catch a Star and hold it in my hand. I would illuminate those whose life is not so grand.

Legal reform in Russia is a must. And I keep track of it daily.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

I am younger each year at the first snow.

There's no labor a man can do that's undignified-if he does it right.

And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all.

The lady ... is an anomaly to which the western nations of this planet have grown accustomed but which would require a great deal of explanation before a Martian could understand her.

No one ever died from an open mind.

I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.