No man dies before his hour. The time you leave behind was no more yours, than that which was before your birth, and concerneth you no more.

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.

Being instinctively lazy, I see no point in working longer hours just to get out of debt !

A boy is naturally full of humor.

I'm not paid to be a role model. I'm paid to wreak havoc on the basketball court.

A bold onset is half the battle.

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

The impulse to share the lives of the poor, the desire to make social service, irrespective of propaganda, express the spirit of Christ, is as old as Christianity itself.

I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.

I'm not like John Lennon, who thought he was the great Almighty. I just think I'm John Lennon.

There are bigger stars out there than me. But I went through my s-, as people do as they get older.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.