No pleasure is fully delightful without communications, and no delight absolute except imparted.

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.

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary.

...once you've crawled into what's commonly thought of as the sordid underbelly of life, you realize it's all just different versions of normal.

Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way.

People seem to remember the sacrifices they made more than what the sacrifices were for.

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy.

Only one music comes out of me.

Well I've never used that phrase before, but yes she is bootylicious.

Knowledge often spoils devotion.

Eat for nutrition and food value. Emphasize natural foods, avoid processed foods and eliminate junk entirely.

To simply dismiss the concept of God as being unscientific is to violate the very objectivity of science itself.