Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem. The dream is his real life; the world around him is the dream.

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.

Baby, I was in a war. Of course I get it. That's where all the bad in the world comes from. Guys who like being mean. I was that guy once. We were all that guy, for at least a minute. We had to be.

Children are a battle of a different sort. ... A battle without banners or warhorns but no less fierce.

The whitest robes, unless their purity be preserved by divine grace, will be defiled by the blackest spots.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

A perfect example of the power of prayer is when a blizzard closes the schools on the day of a big exam.

On corsets: I said, You have got to be kidding. I am an ape and yet I am still expected to squeeze myself into one of those damn things.

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

I love John Waters. You see, I want to be the next Divine.

My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.