If you press me to say why I loved him I can say no more than because he was he and I was I.

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.

Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

The distance between who i am and who i want to be is separated only by my actions and words.

We're out of cocktail olives, it's a tragedy of historic proportions, but we're coping because we're Americans.

You learn at your best when you have something you care about and can get pleasure in being engaged in.

It is said that life begins when the fetus can exist apart from its mother. By this definition, many people in Hollywood are legally dead.

If I can be a leader, I will.

To enjoy the rainbow, first enjoy the rain.

Nothing kinder than strangers. Nothing stranger than kindness.

I feel like I’m eighty years old. I’m tired of life and my mind wants to die.

No matter how successful I become as a playwright, my mother would be thrilled to hear me tell her that I'd just lost twenty pounds, gotten married and become a lawyer.