No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

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.

A whole nation cannot rise above itself.

It's very easy to be cynical about any kind of interference in things that are beyond our skill set.

Made my bed and here I lie, try to hold my head up high. Lying to myself sometimes, bad decisions but I, I won't cry.

I don't hate what I love. I love what I love and I hate what I hate.

I feel like the history between Israel and Palestine has a lot in common with the history between India and Pakistan.

Tennis was never work for me, tennis was fun. And the tougher the battle and the longer the match, the more fun I had.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.

Love is hate War is Peace No is Yes And we're all free.

Giving advice isn't as risky as people say. Few ever take it anyway.