It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality.

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.

A single minded vision gives strength of purpose.

With this man I will never want. With this man I will never be sad again.

The brain cannot learn without wondering, listening, and making connections while your myelin part of your brain develops and grows" ― Sage Canny

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.

The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals.

Friar! What a strange name. I don't remember having created such a thing!

Savvy observers occasionally note television's resemblance to the weather: Everybody loves to complain about it, but nobody can do anything to fix it.

Build a little community of those you love and who love you

It's a fair wind that blew men to ale.