“Everyone’s a millionaire where promises are concerned.”

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be a fish.

Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all.

If any person wish to be idle, let them fall in love.

Love is the force that leaves you colorless.

Make the workmanship surpass the materials.

Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

By yielding you may obtain victory.

We believe slowly when belief brings pain.

Our native land charms us with inexpressible sweetness, and never, never allows us to forget that we belong to it.

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

We need to accept the strangeness of things as they are.

He loved a lifeless thing and he was utterly and hopelessly wretched.

Greatly he failed, but he had greatly dared.

All love is vanquished by a succeeding love.

What we have been, or now are, we shall not be tomorrow.

Young men’s minds are always changeable, but when an old man is concerned in a matter, he looks both before and after.

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

What an absurd notion that women have not intellectual and moral faculties sufficent for anything else but domestic concerns!

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can’t get it back.

We humans are more concerned with having than with being.

People become concerned with being more humble than other people.

We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.

I would like to be known as a person who is concerned about freedom and equality and justice and prosperity for all people.