He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.

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.

To have a rich mind is better than to have a rich bank account.

Oh my God, I am such a liar. And I can't even leave it at just one lie, either. Oh, no. I have to pile it on. I am sick, I tell you. Sick.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

Why do you have to go and make Things so complicated.

Robert Mitchum sounded different from John Wayne, and John Wayne sounded different from Clark Gable.

Equally, the Internet interprets attempts at proprietary control as threats and mobilizes to defeat them.

The atom bomb was no great decision. It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

And if we want to achieve our goal, then let us empower ourselves with the weapon of knowledge and let us shield ourselves with unity and togetherness.

The Moon for all her light and grace Has never learned to know her place.

I visited my father for the full ten years that he was in prison, so we already had a deep and loving relationship, and remembered our mother at those times.