I am disgusted with innovation, in whatever guise, and with reason, for I have seen very harmful effects of it.

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.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

People do not always take responsibility for their own spirituality and their own spiritual relationship with God.

My concern is less the monarchy as such than the attempt of a fading colonial power to hang onto grandeur.

Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time.

The man who believes he can do it is probably right, and so is the man who believes he can't.

A little bit of attention can go a long way.

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink.

If you could wish on a star right now, what would you wish for?"I ask him. "For time to stop. "Why?" He shrugs. "Cause I could live forever at this moment.

Music - it's motivational and just makes you relax.

Fanaticism is a monster that pretends to be the child of religion