Man is quite insane. He wouldn?t know how to create a maggot, and he creates Gods by the dozen.

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.

Don't forget to thank everyday for the good things in life. They can disappear in the blink of an eye.

Since your mindset can make you or break you, how is it going? Is it representing you well or does it need a complete overhaul?

If I'm working, then I'm working, and my focus is on that.

Poetry, with all its obscurity, has a more general as well as a more powerful dominion over the passions than the art of painting.

A woman should be good for everything at home, but abroad good for nothing.

You can be sincere and still be stupid.

I'm always tripped up by the eternal who am I?

When we dead awaken ... we see that we have never lived.

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use; of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.