If ordinary people complain that I speak too much of myself, I complain that they do not even think of themselves.

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.

People do not become world's richest men by praying but by time conversion into products.

There are secrets in all families, you know.

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

All heroes are shadows of Christ

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

-You are on the verge of being truly mad. -No, not at all. Look at me. I can tie my shoelaces. See?

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Work is making a living out of being bored.

I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.

Most of the damage we cause to the planet is the result of our own ignorance.