I am further of opinion that it would be better for us to have [no laws] at all than to have them in so prodigious numbers as we have.

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 home of every soul is not among another's glory, but should be within another's soul.

I haven't failed, I have just found 10, 000 ways that won't work.

No one has capacity to help for ever except God .

It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie.

Another stupid thing I believed for a long time was that pizza was supposed to be said peed-za.

The only one who really knows about the Reichstag is I, because I set it on fire!

Im looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.

Those who talk don't know what is going on and those who know what is going on won't talk.

You can't take no Chinese man and give him no Puerto Rican woman and talking like they're in love and emotionally in love and physically.

I think one or two of the later Holmes stories are among the best.