Nature has, herself, I fear, imprinted in man a kind of instinct to inhumanity.

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.

The true color of intelligence is not in knowledge but in the wisdom of actions.

Walking out into the night with a water fey was all kinds of stupid. Heck, Kelpies eat people. They may not play with their food as creatively as the Each Uisge, but dead is dead.

If You Don't Believe the Numbers and Believe in Your Spirit, then You're Ageless.

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, but lose his soul?" -Mark 8:36

God is an unutterable sigh planted in the depths of the soul.

I just grew the hair on my back. Facial hair just wasn't appealing to me. I liked it on my back, though.

If you think the cause of your problem is 'out there,' you'll try to solve it from the outside. Take the shortcut: solve it from within.

Alan King, a comedian I adored, was considered society, and I was considered the Jewish kid from the neighborhood.

I'm going to try and model myself after Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster.

People who overcome their fears every day, without fanfare, without recognition. Quiet, everyday courage, that’s what I admire most.