It would be better to have no laws at all, than to have too many.

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.

Treat people like people. Beware of pity and patronization because in them, you can't see when you're unashamedly looking down on someone.

In Kingdom - Like the King, Like the People In Democracy - Like the People, Like the Ruler

Talk is cheap.

Philadelphians are every whit as mediocre as their neighbors, but they seldom encourage each other in mediocrity by giving it a more agreeable name.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you ever stand in its way?

Security should not be a black and white thing.

Direct thy attention to what is said. Let thy understanding enter into the things that are doing and the things which do them.

The Earth we share is not just a rock tossed through space, but a living, nurturing being. She cares for us, she deserves our care in return.

Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.