Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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.

So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family.

when the democrats choose not to be democratic, democracy fails to be democratic.

When you are under time pressure for a decision, you need to follow intuition.

It's precisely because we're people that we have the power to change our own fate. So let's all change together.

Make money your god, and it will plague you like the devil.

My goal is to show everyone that they, too, can do what they love to do.

Victories in life come through our ability to work around and over the obstacles that cross our path. We grow stronger as we climb our own mountains.

We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.

When you're a screenwriter, it's like being a mechanic. You open the hood of the story, the director is the driver, and he says, "What do you think? It's a little tough."

Two years ago your father died, Ulysses. But as long as we are alive, as long as we are together, as long as two of us are left, and remember him, nothing in the world can take him from us.