He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

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.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

I think the little bush is a bit stupid and more or less the puppet of his old man.

What is uncertain is how much further the bubble can expand, and what might pop it.

The film of tomorrow will resemble the person who made it, and the number of spectators will be proportional to the number of friends the director has.

And yet what is Modernism? It is undefined.

There are 60 million of us [britains] crammed into an area the size of a state. So you don't have that feeling of remoteness at all, ever. And that's reflected in the way our media works, and so on.

We are not here to solve the problems; the problems are here to solve us.

Once you adopt a value-investment strategy, any other investment behavior starts to seem like gambling.