It is commonly seene by experience, that excellent memories do rather accompany weake judgements.

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 is Evidence of Love. And, Nothing Can Stop the Power of Trusting and Loving Unconditionally.

Always smile, make everyone happy, It can change the way a day is going, even deep in your heart you are sad .

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.

Everybody reads for me. I was never weird about that. I never minded coming in and reading. They should know if I'm the right person, and I should know if I want to do a movie.

I think I should understand that better, if I had it written down: but I can't quite follow it as you say it.

The air itself was ebony, like the denial, the refutation, of the idea of light.

Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible

Boy, you better check that tone. (Wulf) Yeah, yeah, ya scare me. I’m even wetting my pants while in your terrifying, gut-wrenching presence. See me shiver and quiver? Ooo, ahhh, ooo. (Chris)

It makes me unhappy when brothers make babies and leave a young mother to be a pappy.