Necessity reconciles and brings men together; and this accidental connection afterward forms itself into laws.

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've found that luck is quite predictable. If you want more luck, take more chances, Be more active, Show up more often.

The best way to transform a society is to empower the women of that society.

Only later, much later, too late, did I understand how small she (Mrs Winterson) was to herself. The baby nobody picked up. The uncarried child still inside her.

Never assume that someone likes you by their sweetNess.Sometimes you are an option when they are bored

Most successful people find out that the attainment of their goals doesn't necessarily bring them the happiness and joy they assumed; their happiness is short-lived.

Anything can be art. Anything can be self-expression . Now you take the weapon and run with it.

In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it.

I'm just trying to stay aggressive and mix things up enough to be successful.

What's your favorite book? "The last one I read.

Sometimes you're wrong, but if I'm a repeat customer, it means I must have valued the past experiences.