Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.

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 Buddha taught complete honesty, with the extra instruction that everything a person says should be truthful and helpful.

Self-complacency is pleasure accompanied by the idea of oneself as cause.

It's certainly easier to implement bad security and make it illegal for anyone to notice than it is to implement good security.

...in some ways I relied on that- someone to keep me thinking, keep me striving to do better, keep me from burying my head and praying it all worked out.

I've always just gone with the best role, and I don't care if it's in theater, film or television.

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Wine, not too much, inspires and make the mind,to the soft joys of Venus strong inclined,which, buried in excess, unapt to love,stupidly lies and knows not hom to move

When I came back to America, I realized that world music is no joke, it really has a lot to it.