I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.

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.

That man is happiest who lives from day to day and asks no more garnering the simple goodness of life.

Businesses and users are going to use technology only if they can trust it.

Success rarely brings satisfaction.

I like fish and a lot of seaweed, but I don't eat bread or dairy or anything like that. It's kind of like in the macrobiotic world. I'm just a healthy eater who loves to juice.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

Beware of feedback from friends whose judgments could be tainted by feelings of envy or the need to flatter.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.

My father cried when I said I wanted to be a chef.

Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.