I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

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.

There is no right person or wrong person. They only differ in the level of consciousness.

CHERISH a heart like you'd carry an egg, cause when it drops it becomes pieces of shell, never to be MENDED

I feel we need to remind the world about the Apollo missions and that we can still do impossible things.

We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved.

Johnny Hart became much less funny after he found sobriety, and religion, around the same time.

You ought not to be rude to an eagle, when you are only the size of a hobbit, and are up in hid eyrie at night!

Je sais de quelles petitesses meurent les plus grandes amours. I know how pettiness ruins the greatest loves.

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

I acquired long-lived parents. My mother died at 94. Father died at 90, holding a glass of whisky. I think that's the secret of longevity - to have long-lived parents. The rest is discipline.

Speak, Lord”; make time to listen. Chastening is more than a means of discipline, it is meant to get me to the place of saying, “Speak, Lord.”