To dismiss a guest is a more ungracious act than not to admit him at all.

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.

But simply punishing the broken--walking away from them or hiding them from sight--only ensures that they remain broken and we do, too. There is no wholeness outside of our reciprocal humanity.

The sun just touched the morning; The morning, happy thing, Supposed that he had come to dwell, And life would be all spring.

Let's stand up for taxpayers, let's stand up for consumers, and let's stand up for small businesses, which create most of the jobs in America.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

I believe the test of government is the contentment of the people.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

If people lose their land, they have nothing. You lose your land - you lose your culture, you lose self.

First of all, I always see the sun! The way I want to identify myself and others is with halos here and there halos, movements of color. And that, I believe, is rhythm.

I have morning prayers and a nighttime reflection. I also read the Bible daily.

When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.