I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that tied them together.

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.

Setting the remains of a freshly erupted volcano, I walk.

Knowing what she did to him made her feel powerful, just as knowing what he did to her made her feel weak.

Weeping bride laughing wife laughing bride weeping wife.

A sullied green “S” stood out on a graying backdrop that made for a road marker up there. We called it the wasteland.

Don't ask any questions and you won't hear any lies.

My son has autism, and I founded the government relations department at Autism Speaks.

The older Ive gotten, the more I try to stay out of the gym.

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

Satan has his sights on the United States of America.

Gratitude is a species of justice.