I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.

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.

Men are all very well, and a good husband can be enormously useful, but women like us need something to do.

Renewed mind, revived spirit and restored strength.

It's one thing if your hobby is to put ships inside a bottle, but a deer in the headlights!... That's a real talent

Riches are chiefly good because they give us time.

We all have fertile creative periods and times when we can't figure out how we ever did it.

Defeat creates orphaned thoughts.

Our main reproductive organ is our brain.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

It takes a whole lot of medicine for me to pretend I am somebody else.

I'm pretty sure JAY Z don't wanna rap right now.