Friendship that possesses the whole soul, and there rules and sways with an absolute sovereignty, can admit of no rival.

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.

People stubbornly lived their lives as they wanted, without regard to me, to an amazing degree.

Night is my time...am not a vampire but i am a Night Rider....!

You are no greater than the adversity you can handle.

Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time.

If we think of what's up ahead, with climate change and wars over water, it's very frightening.

Designers like even grayness, which is the worst thing for a reader.

Seeing everything just the way it is gives you the power and capability to walk through life effortlessly.

Your beautiful mouth was moving like a caterpillar. I reached out and tried to catch it.

I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.