I neither complain of the past, nor do I fear the future.

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.

Arriving someplace more desirable at some future time is an illusion. This is it.

A gardener tending to his flowers is as noble as a warrior battling his opponents.

'Star Wars' is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It's what they want.

The problem with not having anybody to tell you what to do, I understood, is that there was nobody to tell you what not to do.

The vain being is the really solitary being.

In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, they're not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. It's a product.

While I respect the professionals at the FBI, this announcement defies explanation. No one should be above the law.

Comedy is like music, and the way to make the best music is to have skilled musicians in your band.

My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book.