Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside equally desperate to get out.

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.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence and nothing too much.

It seems supernatural, but only because it is not understood.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

The world is more than a game of cards. History is more than a record of gambling operations.

I like to dance around the house when I'm getting ready. It gets my day going.

Everything is shown up by being exposed to the light, and whatever is exposed to the light itself becomes light.

...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

He looked good, like sin in a suit.

The phenomenon of UFOs does exist, and it must be treated seriously.

If it's work, we try to figure out how to do less, If it's art, we try to figure out how to do more