Oh, a friend! How true is that old saying, that the enjoyment of one is sweeter and more necessary than that of the elements of water and fire!

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.

We can only teach what we have learned

If you read stories, you find the strength, faith and hope to survive everyday life.

The limits of freedom of expression is tautological: it ends at the point where it begins to affect the freedom of expression of others.

The shadow of scepticism is dispelled in the light of real knowledge.

Heroes in books should be so much better than heroes got up for the world's common wear and tear

Audience participation should extend from on-stage to backstage to under the stage

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.

There is more in this heaven and earth than what the scientist knows and is revealed in the x-ray.

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.