No noble thing can be done without risks.

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.

Don't judge what you don't know.

Read the best books first, otherwise you’ll find you do not have time. - Henry David Thoreau

It wasn't until Castro marched triumphantly into Cuba that you might say the whole thing grew into a Marxist revolution.

The unconscious obsession that we photographers have is that wherever we go we want to find the theme that we carry inside ourselves.

You may imitate, but never counterfeit.

I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live.

Much of the work of every life is done in the dark.

It would be impossible to learn the lessons the scriptures contain by reading them only one time through or studying selected verses in a class.

I had made an empirical discovery and it carried all the weight of a mathematical proof.

As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.