A man must live in the world and make the best of it, such as it is.

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.

What if I’ll always be the person on the outside? The person who doesn’t belong.”“You belong, Echo, ” he says against my temple. “Right here with me.

Fright never injures anyone. What injures the spirit is having someone always on your back, beating you, telling you what to do and what not to do

My mother did movies from the New Wave, but I was quite shocked I didn't know much about that period. Bernado showed us film of the demonstrations of the time.

Even in our darkest hour we must remember; never dispair.

Cruelty, as a fine art, has attained its perfect flower in the trained-animal world.

My father was totally Irish, and so I went to Ireland once. I found it to be very much like New York, for it was a beautiful country, and both the women and men were good-looking.

The one sure mark of a con, though, is the promise of free money.

It is not happiness until you capture it and store it out of the reach of time.

I think there's something about dancers, they never ever forget where they come from. They never get grand, no matter what success they have.

Bank-paper must be suppressed, and the circulating medium must be restored to the nation to whom it belongs.