Man (in good earnest) is a marvellous vain, fickle, and unstable subject, and on whom it is very hard to form any certain and uniform judgment.

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.

Corruption in education leads to some people getting highly educated and then these people support the uneducated to rule over the illiterate masses.

Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!

Journey freely along your chosen path, in a manner of your own choosing.

Every fact that is learned becomes a key to other facts.

I had a hard time convincing students that they were going to North Africa to understand the North Africans, not to understand themselves.

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

I was a gymnast for years.

I wish I could play little league now. I'd be way better than before.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

Oneness of the Divine. It may be given a thousand names such as The Primary Cause / God / Energy / I. All that is created has its Self this Oneness.