No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

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.

My train was late that day. the day I saw you drop your notebook. Had it been on schedule we never would have met. Maybe we were never meant to.

The source of man's unhappiness is his ignorance of Nature.

If I could play an instrument, it would probably be a cello or an electric guitar.

I just try to think of all the things that could go wrong so in that split second when it happens, maybe your body reacts in a way where it protects you just a little.

I don't want to be left behind. In fact, I want to be here before the action starts.

The less explaining you do the less people speculate.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.

I've lived many places all over the world, so I've always seen myself as a citizen of the world.