How many worthy men have we known to survive their own reputation, who have seen and suffered the honor and glory most justly acquired in their youth, extinguished in their own presence?

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.

The secular world often finds its constituents disenfranchised and solitary as it has spent a great deal of time debating the religious community while failing to build a true community of its own.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

The trouble with people like Tony Blair is they get confused, they think intelligence is education when they're two different things.

It's true, some wine improves with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye all finite joys, all blessings born to die.

The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.

I always looked really young. I matured pretty late.

After doing STAR TREK for so many years, to do just regular makeup is such a treat. Just put some makeup on and "thank you very much," you're on your way.

Living is a thing you do now or never which do you?

There is still quite the vibe out there that as a parent you have to be completely in control and in charge.