Lend yourself to others, but give yourself to yourself.

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 law is a microphone for the voiceless.

About suffering they were never wrong The Old Masters How well they understood Its human position how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.

It isn't the mountain ahead that wears you out it's the grain of sand in your shoe.

Teaching is an emotional practice: it activates, colors & expresses people's feelings.

No woman will get into the celestial kingdom, except her husband receives her, if she is worthy to have a husband; and if not, somebody will receive her as a servant.

People are still people no matter how you cut it.

One way to measure your own fears is to count the number of personal questions you've allowed others to answer for you.

Don't look at people like they're fools. I don't want to be misunderstand...and I don't want to be a fool again.

I've worked with very few actors who have been at all difficult.

For there is no obedience without humility, nor humility without charity.