Cowardice is the mother of cruelty.

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.

But when I close my eyes, I'm more like THIS under the surface: I'm laughing and scheming and dreaming.

I would suggest that people do need to trust someone, to think they care about you. I believe that in my heart.

I believe that photography can create great works of art, but hitherto it has been extraordinarily bourgeois and babbling. (1908)

If I die... I'd be so mad at myself that I didn't explore that side of me.

Everything is more complicated than you think. You only see a tenth of what is true.

The reward that outdoes all others is the peace of knowing that you did right.

You can milk a cow the wrong way once and still be a farmer, but vote the wrong way on a water tower and you can be in trouble.

Sometimes you just have to try, even if you know it won’t work.

I have three treasures that I cherish. The first is compassion. The second is moderation. The third is not claiming to be first in the world.

What if there's no such thing as PMS and this is just my personality?