As soon as women become ours we are no longer theirs.

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.

They are stupid, they are beasts, they are meat, they are death. I am talking simply but without any affectation.

Divorce is success. Failure is staying married to a person you no longer love.

Never trust anyone who doesn't drink coffee.

The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.

And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.

I'm always going to keep your heart safe, even if mine has to stop beating for that to happen.

There's a dark side to everything.

Quality tends to fan out like waves.

I testify that each one of us can feel the Lord's inspiration as we live worthily and strive to serve Him.

Mose Allison is a beautiful musician.