God sends the cold according to the coat.

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.

Since when, " he asked, "Are the first line and last line of any poemWhere the poem begins and ends?

Star in the sky is useless to the world, Star on the stage makes the difference to the world.

Possession without understanding leads to loss.

The working class must control the factories and the country

I can count on one hand the number of instrumental hits there have been over the last 10 years.

The politicians don't just want your money. They want your soul. They want you to be worn down by taxes until you are dependent and helpless.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

I had always liked blind dates. If nothing else, it was an interesting way of discovering what people thought of you.

In the executive branch, winning by a whisker is as good as winning in a landslide, but not so in the Senate.

It seems probable that humans have been on the planet, with much the same brain, for about 250,000 years.