Diogenes was asked what wine he liked best and he answered "Somebody else's."

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.

Adversity discourages losers

We are born free.

Let no one be deluded that a knowledge of the path can substitute for putting one foot in front of the other.

You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.

On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.

I like clothes that are easy to wear. I like to be comfortable and confident.

It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.

I am not who I was, but I know who I am.

A poem is what the reader lives through under the guidance of the text and experiences as relevant to the text.

Mob rule and emasculation of the wise' and 'who will watch the guardians'?