Most pleasures embrace us but to strangle.

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.

We gain new perspectives on life after every voyage.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

We're not going to baby sit a civil war.

From the very beginning I felt that I would do a series.

My job is to write songs that have emotional meaning to me.

I'm coming to the artist with a smash. I'm like, "Yo this is a smash. We've got to go in."

Within my heart is carved a sculpture of your love.

It wasn't an excuse. It was a fact. He'd had to make his way alone, and no one - not rock stars, not professional athletes, not software billionaires, and not even geniuses - ever makes it alone.

You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

The future is always changing. If we had no choices, there'd be no point in living.