It is putting a very high price on one's conjectures to have someone roasted alive on their account.

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.

He's thought he was willing to do anything in order to get what he wanted, what was right for his kind. He'd been certain any sacrifice was possible.He'd been wrong.

Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.

Politics make strange bedfellows.

I was going to be the hero of the movie [The Lost World]. I had to speak up and be like, "Shouldn't I be the one doing that?

I like to go out and see what a city's all about.

She's wearing a tight red sweater and a red skirt and enough makeup to scare a hooker.

I feel like if you can describe something fully and accurately, then people will be able to see it themselves - they don't need be told what to.

It's nice to be wanted. That's a really good feeling. I'm not immune to it.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

No man more truly loves God than he that is most fearful to offend Him.