I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

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.

If we stood close to each other, side by side, as true brothers and sisters, then evil would not know how to stand between us.

Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary.

The idea that people in novels should be more sympathetic than people in life simply baffles me.

There are people who lie simply for the sake of lying.

Less really is more. It's a tendency of beginning writers to want to prove what they're talking about by going too far with description. I think you've got to keep it short, crisp and clean

I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.

Look not into the sun! Even the moon is too bright for your nocturnal eyes!

Only the footsteps of the blind are short, but their thoughts are long.

I have long been a supporter of a free and independent press and I always will be. But with freedom comes responsibility.

Football was everything to me. There was the physical aspect, sure. I did pushups and sit-ups every night, even as a kid. But I also just studied the game constantly. It was my life.