If others surpass you in knowledge, in charm, in strength, in fortune, you have other causes to blame for it; but if you yield tothem in stoutness of heart you have only yourself to blame.

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.

Imitate the traits of your creator

One becomes bad himself when he sees or calls others bad. When others appear good to him, he will become good himself.

Do not try to catch the happiness because happiness is not a thing you can catch, it is a thing you can create with your own mind only!

The fifth gift is Hope. Through each passage and season, may you trust the goodness of life.

You can do anything you think you can.

It doesn't matter if there are 20, 40, 100, or 500 people there. It doesn't matter how many people. You've got to perform to those people because they've come.

When you care about the culture, you can stop, pause, and say, "Okay, where do I stand in the midst of this all?"

I take it that the judgment is an essential point in every conviction, let the punishment be fixed or not.

Some people consider me worse than Hitler, luckily for others I am Jesus.

The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity.