If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people to die, would teach them to live.

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.

What is in your blood matters, but not as much as what is in your heart.

I would rather be assassinated than see a single star removed from the American flag.

When need something really aggressive, outrageous and not done half-way, I feel like I'm your girl.

I'm at a place of deep cynicism about American politics.

I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.

I have no taste for either poverty or honest labor, so writing is the only recourse left for me

Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it?

I hear your chants. I hear your cat calls. And yes it's true. I'm obsessed with other men's balls. WORD!

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours.

I was in Bangalore, India, the Silicon Valley of India, when I realized that the world was flat.