A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

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.

Every night the dream that enamors me is the one about you and me.

We live in relative world with relatives.

For a deed to be totally pure, it must be done without any thought of reward, whether worldly or divine.

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

You may alter an opinion, but you cannot alter a #‎ fact .

This is what being alive feels like, you know? The place doesn't matter. You just live.

You only regret what you don't do! Go for it, live your dreams and enjoy it all!

In all professions without doubt, but certainly in cooking one is a student all his life.

When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

Old grandsires talk of yesterday with sorrow, And for our children we reserve tomorrow.