A man must not always tell all, for that be folly; but what a man says should be what he thinks.

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.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared to believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.

We are never assured of justice without a fight.

The folks you help won't remember it and the folks you hurt won't ever forget it.

I think I might be one of the only people in America, or at least the only person I know, who saw both 'The Dark Knight' and 'Mamma Mia!' on their shared opening weekend.

You pigeon hole yourself by the title you give yourself.

Beyond all our actions stands the larger shadow: How are we to choose between what we have been taught to think right and something else which manifestly succeeds?

It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

My wife and I look for ways to always support the troops, including sending care packages regularly to them.

In April 1981, at my request, my mother went to a detective agency. She hired them to follow me, to report my daily activities, and to provide photographic evidence of my existence.

The answer to the American health crisis is the food that each of us chooses to put in our mouths each day. It's as simple as that.