It is setting a high value upon our opinions to roast men and women alive on account of them.

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.

At the end of the world, music always played on like a bad movie.

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.

Don't start me talking, I could talk all night. My mind goes sleepwalking while I'm putting the world right.

Focusing on negative situations is never helpful.

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.

If it's not good, it's not the end.

Initial response illustrates a great deal about someone's personal philosophy.

I need different people to tap into different energies for different things.

Listen with your heart, you will understand.

Being in love with someone who doesn't even know that you exist isn't the worst thing in the world.