Every place swarms with commentaries; of authors there is great scarcity.

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.

I never grew up all at once. I did it one place and another along the way.

This is Winter, " said Scarlet. "Princess Winter."Thorne guffawed and pushed a hand into his hair. "Are we running a boardinghouse for misplaced royalty around here, or what?

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

We shouldn't require our politicians to be movie stars. Then again, we're all influenced by charisma. It's hard not to be. We all collectively fall for it.

Poverty hides itself in thought before it surrenders to purses.

I got injured when I was a kid, and it prevented me from becoming a footballer.

The more humble and transparent a leader is, the more effective he or she will be.

I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

So people only focus on getting the really deep sleep, but in reality, we spend almost 60% of the night in the stage two sleep.

Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture.