Few men have been admired of their familiars.

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.

Be the initiator of things you wish to see, but can’t see. Be the originator of things you wish you feel but can’t feel.

People tell me I excel in Public Relations, what I suck at are private affairs.

Twenty-first century medicine must not be confined to a twentieth-century bureaucracy.

It's a brutal regime, in the Assad regime, that is willing to take any measure, no matter how immoral or war criminal acts, to persecute its goals.

You manage things, you lead people. We went overboard on management and forgot about leadership.

Praise is the symbol which represents sympathy, and which the mind insensibly substitutes for its recollection and language.

There is progress taking place, growth is better. We're only talking about two years there.

Amor animi arbitrio sumitu, non ponitur; we choose to love; we do not choose to cease loving.

I was talking cannibalism, not romance.

Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.