How often, being moved under a false cause, if the person offending makes a good defense and presents us with a just excuse, are we angry against truth and innocence itself?

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.

When you will learn to recognize your true self, you will find the true beauty and the magic of life.

I hate to be what is called a clever girl—there are too many of that sort now!

It has been die providence of nature to give this creature nine lives instead of one.

The problem of psychoanalysis is not the body of theory that Freud left behind, but the fact that it never became a medical science. It never tried to test its ideas.

I can't do Christopher Walken impressions anymore, thanks [Barack] Obama.

Chris Christie was going to save the party from a figure like [Donald] Trump. He was going to save the party. That didn't happen. And now, he's with Trump.

Nothing says “i came here to win” like jazz hands

All right," sighed Madrigal. "To the baths, then. To make ourselves shiningly clean." Like vegetable, she thought, before they go in the stew.

Would a special relationship between the United States and the British Commonwealth be inconsistent with our overriding loyalty to the world organization?

In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.