I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give my word I can do.

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.

In the world to come they will not ask me "Why were you not Moses?" They will ask me "Why were you not Zusya?"

Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to create order.

Curiosity may have killed the cat, but it was the sausage-maker who disposed of the body.

I'm in fact a hair under six feet, but I'm very svelte. People would never see me if I turned sideways.

A democracy barely functions under the neoliberal system.

Never cast pearls before swine.

Why now, why is this the perfect time for this particular idea, and to start this particular company?

Contrary to what you think, not all preternatural beings hang out at the local Supernatural Pub looking for humans and dates.

Being able to quit things that don't work is integral to being a winner