I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion.

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.

Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?

Screws fall out all the time, the world is an imperfect place.

Neither is there a smallest part of what is small, but there is always a smaller (for it is impossible that what is should cease to be). Likewise there is always something larger than what is large.

Jesus is the human face on the kingdom of God. He makes it concretely accessible.

Activists can get very preachy about things. It's more about understanding people's own experiences and tapping into them.

I can go everywhere and no one recognises me.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

I demand perfection in what I do, and I practice very hard before I give a concert-sometimes three to six hours a day.

It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

I don't have the insight with the Longhorns that I do with the two teams that I own, but as a fan and reading the sports pages, I'm bullish about the Longhorns.