I want death to find me planting my cabbages.

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.

To lose--get angry and fight back. To win--forgive with love.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

The credit to them, the better team won and there's nothing we can do about that now.

It's better to have your blackness taken away than to stand and lie about who you actually are.

Never work with children, puppies or bulimics.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can't fly home.

You have the 20th century wrapping up and everything is moving at this breakneck speed? And then, painting is still walking. It's just a very human activity that takes time.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

People enter Web sites hoping to be led somewhere, hoping for a payoff.

Always be suspicious of those who pretend to know it all, claim their way is the best way and are willing to force their way on the rest of us.