Fortune, to show us her power in all things, and to abate our presumption, seeing she could not make fools wise, has made them fortunate.

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.

Money is just a piece of paper for me, it always brings trouble with it and too much of money will make you mad for it

He had an overwhelming urge to take possession of her lips, silencing any mention of another man’s name.

It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off

We need to see men and women as equal partners, but it's hard to think of movies that do that. When I talk to people, they think of movies of forty-five years ago! Hepburn and Tracy!

I have a friend. He keeps trying to convince me he's a compulsive liar, but I don't believe him.

It's fine to be a great democrat when you've a slave to rub your boots on.

The most important thing that happens within Christian spirituality is when a person falls in love with Jesus.

Fascism is the consequence of economic jam and dictatorship is the product of Fascism, for Fascism cannot be managed save by a dictator.

All the wonders you seek are within yourself.

Never forget the morals instilled in you and what really matters in Life. Never let other voices of other people drown out your inner voice