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.

Sometimes, the way around prejudice is education.

It takes courage and resilience to be true to ourself. We have to know that we will be okay even if others reject or ridicule us. We have to know it won’t destroy us.

Imagination is our inner-child and creativity, its playground.

It does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state...it means the end of a thousand years of history.

Man's creative struggle, his search for wisdom and truth, is a love story.

Discontent is a good thing: discontented people can modify and improve their worlds, leave them better, leave them different.

Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty.

In terms of fitting in, you know, I don't have a lot of armor up. I'm a raw nerve and it's really uncomfortable for a lot of people.

My mom and I have always been really close. She’s always been the friend that was always there.

If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.