Once you have decided to keep a certain pile, it is no longer yours; for you can't spend it.

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.

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to see that I was interested in cells and their functions.

When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.

There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.

The North Sea was supposed to run out in the 1980s. Then in the 1990s. And now production is still on-line.

Let sleeping dogs lie — who wants to rouse 'em?

Some people become dullards, but as children we are all creative. It's in the programming, the socialization, that we lose our sense of play.

The trouble with all of us is we are where we shouldn't be.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

It's frightening for one artist to see another one, any other one turn away from art.