It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

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.

When you have to do something, you have to do it. Putting it off only makes it worse. Believe me, I know.

Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.

Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.

[Charles] Darwin, for example, is the one who made us face the fact that the primary way we tell the Christ story doesn't work anymore.

There comes a time to join the side you're on.

What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today, when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language.

The I is the soul, which endures.

Stop killing your brothers and your sisters and help them out in any difficulty. That's my message.

All problems are people problems. And most people problems are people refusing to act like people.

The way to go from discord to harmony is to go from concentrating on differences to concentrating on similarities.