Men are tormented by the opinions they have of things, and not the things themselves.

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.

Mr. Cupples came out of his reverie. "I think, " he said, "I will have milk and soda-water." "Speak lower!" urged Trent. "The head-waiter has a weak heart, and he might hear you.

The beautiful is powerless but always exceeds what frames it, and what always frames it is discourse.

Whatever is impermanent is dukkha’ (Yad aniccaṃ taṃ dukkhaṃ).

For Beatrice, when we met, my life began. Soon afterwards, yours ended.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Education is the great equalizer of our time. It gives hope to the hopeless and creates chances for those without.

A man who is too afraid to admit his fears is a man who won’t overcome them.

If I had known my own limitations, I never would have taken the risk, and the risk led to one my greatest artistic and personal experiences.

The memory of the just survives in Heaven.