There is no such thing as pure pleasure some anxiety always goes with it.

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.

There is no hospitality like understanding.

...what does the future look like?...'A deep blue, fading into golds and reds-like fire on a horizon. Afterlight. It's a sky that wants you to guess if the sun is about to rise or set.

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

It is better to teach a few things perfectly than many things indifferently...

The thing is, we [celebrities are] all just people living our lives, doing our thing. But, I honestly tend to live in my own little world, and am blissfully unaware of so much.

The gift without the giver is rare.

L.A. - talk about a cruel city: Patients are forcibly removed from hospitals.

The highest form of love is the love that allows for intimacy without the annihilation of difference.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.