For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.

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.

Maybe I don't really want to know what's going on. Maybe I'd rather not know. Maybe I couldn't bear to know. The Fall was a fall from innocence to knowledge.

Teach me how to fly, my beautiful butterfly.

Just when I need Him He is my all Answering when upon Him I call Tenderly watching lest I should fall.

I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with.

Consider that not only do negative thoughts and emotions destroy our experience of peace, they also undermine our health.

How come there's no terrorism with humor, which is a great way to humiliate your enemy? It's a great time for that.

It might sound ordinary for a woman to find out her husband's cheating on her, but not if you're the woman and it's your husband.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herseif as 'embedded.' To say, 'I'm an embedded journalist' is to say, 'I'm a government Propagandist.

Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love.

Well has he lived who has lived well in obscurity.