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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 a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

…she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children.

No one goes out to play anymore. Simulation is becoming reality.

The American Dream is one of success, home ownership, college education for one's children, and have a secure job to provide these and other goals.

notes fly so much farther than words. There is no other way to reach the infinite.

every pleasure's got an edge of pain, pay your ticket and don't complain

Success listens only to applause. To all else it is deaf

every day a million miracles begin at sunrise!

Everybody works but the vacant lot

This is an absolute law: You've got to be rich inside to become and remain rich outside. Become rich inside and your mental equivalent will manifest in your experience.