All other knowledge is hurtful to him who has not honesty and good-nature

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.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

Then, in that case, all the rest, all that I thought I thought and all that I felt I felt, all the rest before me now, in fact... O, give it up old chap! Sleep it off!

No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

I will never be below the title.

Bloomberg is famously impatient with beltway politics and believes that to get anything done you need to work from the ground up.

I was studying with Joe Allard, which was great, as a saxophone student. Being able to study with Joe Allard was an incredible experience.

Policemen are numbered in case they get lost.

But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many…?

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.