It is only certain that there is nothing certain, and that nothing is more miserable or more proud than man.

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.

The more beautiful the vision, the more complicated the execution.

Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.

Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.

Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

In my estimation, there has not been in American history a more important leak than Edward Snowden's release of NSA material – and that definitely includes the Pentagon Papers 40 years ago.

Sometimes you can't be what you ought to be, you can't have what you ought to have.

I know that I have a special stomach.

We have switched from defense to offense and in this battle all the members of the Hamas leadership are legitimate targets.

Men have marble, women waxen, minds.