Books are a languid pleasure.

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.

I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.

Virtue lives when Beauty dies.

To give oneself ernestly to securing righteousness and justice among the people, and while respecting the gods and demons, to keep aloof from them, that may be called wisdom.

Always keep in mind that if God didn't want a man to have mulligans, golf balls wouldn't come three to a sleeve.

Obviously, it wasn't meant for me to die of cancer at 40. Every day my life surprises me, just like my cancer diagnosis surprised me. But you roll with it. That's our job as humans.

Sometimes the cultures phobia of religion borders on the absurd.

My town hall meetings are with friends and neighbors, fellow Americans. We engage.

I love to produce a track and then play it for the crowd; that's the biggest kick for me!

I admire Grover Norquist. I think hes done a lot of good.

So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"