My appetite comes to me while eating.

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.

Success needs vision to see, passion to transcend, patience to withstand and the character to overcome failures.

Simple survival is never as ordinary as it seems!

Our house was open to anyone who needed a little extra support or comfort or just a home-cooked meal.

Hiring should be like dating. A great marriage does not happen in a 30 minutes interview.

I think pre-nups are brilliant. I get very well taken care of.

A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will.

Bigots see something they expect and then they stop thinking about what is in front of them. It's probably how they got to be bigots in the first place.

There is hardly anybody good for everything, and there is scarcely anybody who is absolutely good for nothing.

Teaching is a personal matter of the nursery of the mind and should not be on public display.

The most miserable prison in the world is the prison we make for ourselves when we refuse to show mercy.