I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers and only the thread that bonds them is 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.

Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

If I become the man you want, I wouldn't be the man I am.

Will power is only the tensile strength of one's own disposition. One cannot increase it by a single ounce.

'Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past.

He always lived in his head. He never cared about how things were, only how they would be, someday, when he had everything he wanted. When we had everything we wanted.

Karate is like boiling water, if you do not heat it constantly, it will cool.

Golf is a better game played downhill.

As soon as you can say what you think and not what some other person has thought for you, you are on the way to being a remarkable man.

Whatever follows 'I AM' will always come looking for you!

Life teaches much, but to all thinking persons it brings ever closer the will of God - not because their faculties decline, but on the contrary, because they increase.