To wish is of little account; to succeed you must earnestly desire; and this desire must shorten thy sleep.

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.

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!”“Tempting, ” Percy called down.

I have already lost the knowledge of the word whose sound has the shape of a soul. But perhaps it's not too late. Come with me. Hurry now. We still have a chance to be young.

You will NEVER Accomplish until you tried AGAIN.

I would trade all my experimental works for the single idea of the benzene theory.

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Chick Hearn was my favorite broadcaster ever - he's the one who taught me to think basketball, how to love basketball.

In the time one is given, the steward must make the most of the talents one is given by the Lord.

A "classic" is a book that everybody praises but nobody has read

If you don't make time for exercise, you'll probably have to make time for illness.

Begin at once to live and count each day a separate life time.” - Seneca “Our lives are the sum total of the choices we have made.