If to take up books were to take them in, and if to see them were to consider them, and to run through them were to grasp them, I should be wrong to make myself out quite as ignorant as I say I am.

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.

There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.

You must possess Passion along with having a very strong no-fear spiritual belief in order to gain true success in life.

Faith is not the belief that everything will be all right tomorrow, but the belief that I possess the strength to make everything all right today.

It's really great that people are seeing me as a credible person. That alone is great. And the fact that people make fan accounts for me and recognize me now sometimes is really strange and cool.

That I survived the Holocaust and went on to love beautiful girls, to talk, to write, to have toast and tea and live my life - that is what is abnormal.

Our own happiness ought not to be our main objective in life.

One can say that in the last decades chess has become more of a sport than of a science. I see it from an artistic point of view.

If your virtue is especially radiant, it can be possible to open a pathway to the subtle realm and receive these celestial teachings directly from the immortals.

...instead it seems that business - like weight loss - is a subject wherein hope and fear inspire limitless gullibility.

Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.