Hath God obliged himself not to exceed the bounds of our knowledge?

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.

Never be afraid to tell me anything, ” he whispered against her hair. “No matter how ashamed you might feel. I’ll never judge you, Rachel. I love you.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

A wiseman invests in something that lasts forever

Liberalization and democratization are in essence counter-revolution.

You can't climb a tile wall.

I like to challenge myself. I like to learn - so I like to try new things and try to keep growing.

I'm fascinated by how you'll change your position so many times over a lifetime, but really what you're doing is occupying a series of positions on a landscape.

Reading functions as hallucinating a meaning between letters and lines.

We [the band] had this open door policy - if you walked in the door, you were asked to play

I havent really thought about where to scatter my ashes when the time comes, but I doubt that it would be in space.