I walk firmer and more secure up hill than down.

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.

In his last days on this earth, he’d wanted to know if this was all there was.

A relationship isn't going to make me survive. It's the cherry on top.

I know a great country that needs to be rebuilt in terms of roads, bridges, schools. That is called the United States of America.

The Artist," an ancient sage had once said, "is always sitting on the doorsteps of the rich.

My parents were very firm about me always getting my homework done.

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

It will never be altogether well with us till we convert the universe into a prayer room.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.

When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever, EVER be turned around where they could start cleaning it out in my lifetime!