Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.

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.

I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.

But there was something in his eyes at times that I would almost swear said something more. Some deeper sort of regard.

Not writing at all leads to nothing.

I didn't really want to give up music.

Football is the most important of the less important things in the world.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

Proceedings at law are sufficiently expensive.

No, our greatness does not come from our government.

I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart.

Whenever I go someplace I always buy something, collect something, to help me remember the trip. So I guess I collect mementos from my many travels.