Obstinacy and contention are common qualities, most appearing in, and best becoming, a mean and illiterate soul.

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.

Nothing great was ever created without a great dream.

Americans will respect your beliefs if you just keep them private.

Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.

Whatever job you take on, make yourself valuable, then indispensable.

Satire always benefits when evil and stupidity collide.

To possess another language is to possess another soul.

I believe that those who die for Ireland have no need for prayer

You cannot intellectualize God, you cannot, He is beyond your intellect, you cannot understand Him through your intellect. If you have to understand Him you have to become the spirit.

If you stay true to what you believe in, and if you're creating something great and authentic, your fans will stick with you no matter how much other things change!