No man profiteth but by the loss of others.

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.

Unleash your mighty words, and with them, recreate a new and more beautiful world for all.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

Progress not perfection... you can't be perfect everything... but you can gain progress on a daily basis.

Be not cheap or mediocre in desiring.

Personal power is a feeling, like life.

I am a good horse to travel, but not from choice a roadster. The landscape-painter uses the figures of men to mark a road. He would not make that use of my figure.

What goes on when people overfetishize safety is that they're relapsing into that old frame of mind that what we're doing is bad.

We seem ambitious God's whole work to undo. ...With new diseases on ourselves we war, And with new physic, a worse engine far.

Thinking is sometimes too intense, so once I start feeling pain, if it is not too much pain, it eases my mind.

Calamity is the perfect glass wherein we truly see and know ourselves.