You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe.

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.

Education is the realization of hope for the future.

One of a person's greatest emotional needs is to feel appreciated. Start by appreciating yourself.

Be curious. Be daring. Be different. Be yourself. And, if that doesn't work, be moi!

Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.

Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.

I extract what I consider the best material from different sources. But often the material I perform comes from a very strange location in history, which are minstrel shows.

Awakening is about liberating yourself from the prison that is the world of the mind and daring to be here as all that you are.

Anybody can wish for riches, and most people do, but only a few know that a definite plan, plus a burning desire for wealth, are the only dependable means of accumulating wealth

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.