But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against 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.

I don’t do metaphysics. Neither do I have the luxury to talk about my beliefs.

Connie, giving her thoughts on why Vinnie's hot temper is less than normal, says: "Lucille must have fed him a Vallium smoothie this morning.

Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in His presence.

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

I am really Method-y.

There are so many opportunities that I could've gotten before if I had just took a little more of a risk.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

In stages, the impossible becomes possible.

When I go to peoples' houses I like to sneak into their bedrooms and try on their underwear.