It is not a mind, it is not a body that we educate, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him.

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.

Indeed, woman can be a machine run wild, or a machine can be a better, more subjugated, and efficient woman.

Never judge anyone but to love and understand everyone.

God always brings someone into your life that has traveled the same path and knows the rocks you climbed to get to the end of the trail.

I support guns and I support the death penalty. Half of my interviews are convincing liberals they're not liberal.

Sometimes one learns too early, as I did, what the world is capable of.

One always has riches when one has a book to read.

I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.

Clint Eastwood expects you to know what you're doing. He's going to take two giant steps back and let you do it. I have such appreciation for that part of him.

I know what makes me happy. I pick the clothes that make me happy - sometimes people like them, sometimes they don't. I try to listen to my own internal guide.