I look upon the too good opinion that man has of himself, as the nursing mother of all false opinions, both public and private.

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.

What happens to us are tiny matters compare to our hopeful and positive mental attitude to survive the situation.

I gave her love she gave me words to write

But I'm not like sad, depressed miserable person. I guess sometimes I give off that impression.

Half-liberty comes with wisdom, full liberty with death.

No amount of observations of white swans can allow the inference that all swans are white, but the observation of a single black swan is sufficient to refute that conclusion.

And we have a Fed that's doing political things. This Janet Yellen of the Fed. The Fed is doing political - by keeping the interest rates at this level.

It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.

One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .

Love is great, love is fine. Out the box, out of line. The affliction of the feeling leaves me wanting more.