A man may be humble through vainglory.

The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.

Valor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

Outside your comfort zone is the only place worth living.

Armise and I had met through the scope of our rifles and sometimes I wondered if that was also where we'd end.

prospect, n. An outlook, usually forbidding. An expectation, usually forbidden.

I carried through well with my tennis. I got the respect by usage of the tennis racket.

Every election is about the future, which by definition means it's more about the future of young people than it is about me.

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.

I can't go to the hardware store, cut a sheet in half and staple it to the window anymore. It doesn't fly.

I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.

Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

I think narrators expect a high level of intimacy with their readers, and vice versa.