I am much afraid that we shall have very greatly hastened the decline and ruin of the New World by our contagion, and that we willhave sold it our opinions and our arts very dear.

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.

Your life was meant to be used to fulfill your purpose and destiny.

Your hypocrisy insults my intelligence.

When you're all dressed up and no place to go.

I don't think marriage is a civil right, but I think that being able to transfer property is a civil right.

The most important thing in this world is faith. Without faith you cannot communicate with God.

Consciously and unconsciously, an artist engaged in serious work is always raising or dealing with the question, 'What really matters?'

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

[Buckminster Fuller] was quite a Newtonian in certain ways. But he was an excellent inventor and kept people on their toes.

I thought I was promiscuous, but it turns out I was just thorough.