What makes men indifferent to their wives is that they can see them when they please.

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.

My kind of wanting to be funny didn't come from need, necessarily. The closest I can analyze it is that it was an easy way to make friends, I found out. It was just a great kind of social tool.

Little by little, bit by bit, family by family, so much good can be done on so many levels

In the utmost solitudes of nature, the existence of hell seems to me as legibly declared by a thousand spiritual utterances as that of heaven.

I can't tell you the number of times I've been in the middle of a perfunctory conversation, and someone will say, 'Tell us what you really think.' Or 'Maybe you should switch to decaf.

Graphic design is the fiction that anticipates the fact.

Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.

I'm the leading voice in America for not arming the allies of ISIS.

I'll be back. I'll be black. I'll be white black.

A true teacher doesn't teach you to think like him, but to think without him.

All through the ages the African people have made efforts to deliver themselves from oppressive forces.