Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

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 like the shadows. That's where all the power is.

The difference between landscape and landscape is small but there's a great difference in the beholders.

Italian food is all about ingredients and it's not fussy and it's not fancy.

Somewhere like Russia or China, decision-makers have far fewer constraints on acting than in more open systems.

There's always some place to go. You don't need workshops, you don't need friends necessarily, you can be befriended by literature itself.

Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.

Money is a great help everywhere; - can't have too much, if you get it honestly.

You were born to rock, you'll never be an opera star.

Learn that urgency in prayer does not so much consist in vehement pleading, as in vehement believing. He that believes most the love and power of Jesus will obtain the most in prayer.

...throughout the history of art it has been art itself - in all its forms - that has inspired art...today's photographs are so geared to life that one can learn more from them than from life itself.