I must accommodate my history to the hour: I may presently change, not only by fortune, but also by intention.

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.

Memories are who we are, Tul. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and memories are what last.

Anything which parents have not learned from experience they can now learn from their children.

It's fear that makes an act courageous.

Your fixed convictions concerning the things that really matter mold your destiny.

Every time you do a project, you learn something new.

I spent most of my 20s with these alligator wrestlers in the swamps of South Florida.

Nor bring, to see me cease to live, Some doctor full of phrase and fame, To shake his sapient head, and give The ill he cannot cure a name.

Education in a deepest sense has always been about doing rather than about knowing.

Every cold empirick, when his heart is expanded by a successful experiment, swells into a theorist.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.