Only he can judge of matters great and high whose soul is likewise.

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 good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

If you wanna judge it...then you need to expereince it..!

People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Early in my career, my 3-, 5- and 9-irons performed differently than my other irons. But I adapted and made them work.

I don't want to take somebody else's beating. That makes me unhappy.

I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act.

Art just consists in making us swallow the commonplaces by charming us eternally.

I go where the lizards tell me.