Arts and sciences are not cast in a mould, but are found and perfected by degrees, by often handling and polishing.

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.

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work and animates a man to do his utmost.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

I'm a Freddie Mercury fan. (In response to an interviewer backstage at a Queen concert at the LA Forum, who asked: Can I tell my viewers that Michael Jackson is a Queen fan?

I'm too tall to be a girl. I'm between a chick and a broad.

I'm proud to be part of any Olympic team.

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

Transcendent values like trust and integrity literally translate into revenue, profits and prosperity.

I don't fight to prove that I'm tough, I know I'm tough. I fight because it's inside of me.