Not being able to govern events I govern myself.

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.

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

There's nothing less funny than someone who looks cool. There's nothing more unappealing.

I love Toronto's long autumns, warm with windy swirls of golden spores, redolent with giant, sun-roasted leaves flapping up and down the streets, and horrible winter always seeming far, far off!

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

Why on earth should I care whether people read me with their eyes or their ears?

I might play a lot of dramatic roles, but I'm really sort of silly.

That's one of the great things about touring. It makes you machinelike in a way that you can re-create this music not only in the right way but even better than when it was conceived.

Faults in English prose derive not so much from lack of knowledge, intelligence or art as from lack of thought, patience or goodwill.

When I'm promoting a film, I'm not going to get caught up in anything else, and that includes all my personal things.

We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.