Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged.

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.

Religion without philosophy is sentiment, or sometimes fanaticism, while philosophy without religion is mental speculation.

When there hasn't been anything there, nothing can be said to have vanished from the place where it has not been.("Out Of The Deep")

I don't see anything wrong in someone wanting to be famous or having sky-high ambitions.

Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting.

A master passion is the love of news.

Love is giving up your needs for the sake of someone else, in some other words its sacrifice

Designed by architects with honorable intentions but hands of palsy.

Our government is just way too interested in mucking around in Silicon Valley by creating and enforcing rules based on little or no understanding of the consequences.

Most people can start a short story or a novel. If you're a writer, you can finish them. Finish enough of them, and you may be good enough to be publishable.

My mind gets into a verbal mode.