In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up.

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.

What is left when honor is lost?

In my gut-wrenching honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.

According lecture, entire effort United States to incite desire, inflict want, inspire demand.

In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure.

Treachery has existed as long as there's been warfare, and there's always been a few people that you couldn't trust.

I'll be a president that will turn our inner cities around and will give strength to people and will give economics to people and will bring jobs back.

When men can hate without risk, their stupidity is easily convinced, the motives supply themselves.

All universal moral principles are idle fancies.

I think I feel in love with words before I feel in love with music.

A good banana daiquiri is hard to come by. I've only ever found one place in this country that makes a proper one, and that's in Leeds.