One open way of speaking introduces another open way of speaking, and draws out discoveries, like wine and love.

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.

Even death, faced with the option of death or life, she would choose life.

World full of love, will spark the force of divine powers.

We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.

Good night, belovedest. Your sleep will be sweet if there is any influences in the wishes of your own.

Some are weather-wise some are otherwise.

Your struggle is your strength. If you can resist becoming negative, bitter or hopeless, in time, your struggles will give you everything.

We are by far the most contradictory of all primates. An animal with this much internal conflict has never lived on this earth.

Look at a day when you are supremely satisfied at the end. It's not a day when you lounge around doing nothing; it's a day you've had everything to do and you've done it.

I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.

Love is appreciating, complimenting, feeling gratitude, and speaking good words to others.