Confidence in the goodness of another is good proof of one's own goodness.

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.

When something needs to be said, you look for a man to say it. But when something needs actually to be done, you look for a woman.

There's no such thing as complete when it comes to stories. Stories are infinite. They are as infinite as worlds.

You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

Don’t ever give up. Don’t see the obstacles, just the way around them. For me, of course it looked improbable, but not impossible. So as long as there was a way, I would not be discouraged.

The best thing to do is go as far out as you can get... what you regard as 'too far' - and when others follow, as they will, move on

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

An important part of what the state does is preserving its history.

Arm there," she said. "Other arm, idiot. Now hand there...okay, ready? We're going to start with your left foot. On three. One. Two... What the devil is he doing here?

If God wished to punish us, all he would need to do would be to answer our prayers.