After they had accustomed themselves at Rome to the spectacles of the slaughter of animals, they proceeded to those of the slaughter of men, to the gladiators.

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.

The habitant is the true Canadian for he has no other country.

I love England. I don't really like places when they're too hot. It's my Celtic blood.

Do definite good; first of all to yourself, then to definite persons.

The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

It's very hard to try to be a cultural . . . people who organize cultural things . . . it's very complicated. And more so in a country like Guatemala.

Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected.

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.

What were they thinking? 'It's an alien apocalypse! Quick, grab the beer!

I have my shortcomings. But the message, it has no shortcomings. The message of Liberty is what America is all about.

The Irish are the one race for which psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever... because they already live in a dream world.