Fear desire hope still push us on toward the future.

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.

Fly with a kind heart, a light spirit, and a resilient soul.

I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.

The hellish instruments of war must be smoked out while there is still peace. The Trade Union Movement must be compelled not to allow their old resolutions to fade in the files.

Trump's rise is troubling not just on an American level but on an international level.

Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.

I have observed, too, that the people of the many countries that I have visited are showing an ever increasing interest in the classical and traditional music of their own cultures.

I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.

Magellan went around the world in 1521, which is not too many strokes when you consider the distance.

I don't always do a lot of predicting, but, when I get a really strong feeling about something, I will tell people.

Most of all people respond to a film tackling grave subjects that question and go against the prevailing mood.