God defend me from myself.

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.

No one is ever a victim of life

Just because she isn't human, do you think that means she doesn't feel pain?

Starlight is best felt at noon...

The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.

The experience of God, or in any case the possibility of experiencing God, is innate.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that.

Nothing can come out of nothing, any more than a thing can go back to nothing.

Faith, I am no such fool; everyone for himself in this desert of selfishness which is called life.

Christianity is not "Jesus is our example." Christianity is "Jesus is our substitute."