If you have known how to compose your life, you have done a great deal more than the person who knows how to compose a book. You have done more than the one who has taken cities and empires.

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.

The Bible is God’s love letter to us.

I tend to feel really protective of songs, and if they aren't sitting well in a record, I'll pull them tight to my chest until I feel it's a better time.

In the time it takes us to look beyond the lies, we could be sailing in each other's eyes.

But rarely have I made choices that made me feel I was really compromising what I believe.

See," he said, "the arrow struck against this. It is the kiss I gave her. It has saved her life.

But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything.

Your personality is what makes you sexy.

Surrender is not the best way to live; it is the only way to live. Nothing else works.

The mind's ability to rationalize it's own shortcomings is unlimited; I am no exception.

[the war in Iraq] "could have terrifically good effects troughout the Middle East