I give my opinion not as being good, but as being my own.

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.

Maybe if I had gone on like that I could have stopped myself in time. Maybe at that point I still had it in me to come through.

Broadcast your message, not your emotions...!!

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Men are much oftener thrown on their knees by the melancholy than by the agreeable passions.

Machine guns are taken through grit and determination.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

The cure for too much to do is solitude and silence.

It takes madness to find out madness.

Religion is a dangerous prod, because it can always be misused and get out of hand, but it's useful for keeping people on the straight and narrow.

You don't get lucky. You create lucky.