In plain truth, lying is an accursed vice. We are not men, nor have any other tie upon another, but by our word.

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 is only one ideal in the world, which is, the light of knowledge – the light of truth.

I can't think of a president who has been overburdened by a knowledge of economics.

I just don't find marriage a necessary step in a couple's life.

When you're not happy, you need to be strong to change, resisting the temptation of turning back. The weak goes nowhere

I was forced to make the decision between art and music which are the only two things I liked as opposed to being able to do them both because that's what I was interested in.

The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.

Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority.

For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.

Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along and do it. A genius is the one most like himself.