A straight oar looks bent in the water. It matters not merely that we see a thing, but how we see it.

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.

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.

If there was a template for success in sports, everyone would follow it. You do the best you can and trust the people you trust.

A life-long blessing for children is to fill them with warm memories of times together. Happy memories become treasures in the heart to pull out on the tough days of adulthood.

Let our reason, and not our senses, be the rule of our conduct; for reason will teach us to think wisely, to speak prudently, and to behave worthily.

Even more than feeling healthy, most people want to feel free and in control.

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

The heart overwhelmed by grief knows no rest.

Horses are far worse than men for treachery.

The only art I'm interested in is the art I don't understand right away. If you understand it right away it really has no use except as nostalgia.

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?