I would have every man write what he knows and no more.

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.

Know you will win and you will win!

My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring, still.

The company of fools may first make us smile, but in the end we always feel melancholy.

The old, old gospel is the newest thing in the world; in its very essence it is for ever good news.

My first offer was when I was 12, and it was for a soap opera. And I turned it down because I knew that I was an unformed actor, and I didn't want to develop bad habits.

Explicitly Christian themes are regularly excluded from news articles.

If you want to know what love is, have a child. If you want to know what pain is, bury him.

Love endows us with a sort of personal religion; we respect another live within ourselves.

Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours.