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.

If you have an elegant stance, a noble stance, an ethical stance or a scientific stance, you will not be appreciated by the inelegant, by the ignoble, by the unethical or by the unscientific people!

Just worry about things you can do something about. The rest wil take care of itself

Innocence is the most intelligent admission of stupidity.

Mothers are irreplaceable treasure, you can always have a step-mother but never in life can you ever have another mother”.

There are no dots in Tee'sOr cross in eye'sThere is no connect in child neglect

Stone Age. Bronze Age. Iron Age. We define entire epics of humanity by the technology they use.

Thank God we're living in a country where the sky's the limit, the stores are open late and you can shop in bed thanks to television.

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means of doing evil to others.

Above all do not give yourself airs. Breaking the moment of past habits is the challenge here: In the life of the spirit you are always at the beginning.

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.