Order a purge for your brain, it will there be much better employed than upon your stomach.

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.

Women want men, careers, money, children, friends, luxury, comfort, independence, freedom, respect, love, and a three-dollar pantyhose that won't run.

I should not mistake her calm probing for the absence of anger.

When someone tells you something big, it's like you're taking money from them, and there's no way it will ever go back to being the way it was. You have to take responsibility for listening.

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

What trouble have you brought to my doorstep, Beka?" she asked."I don't see where blaming me for things that began months ago will be useful, " I replied.

My goals are something I believe in, because I believe I'm going to make it.

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

Most people struggle with life balance simply because they haven't paid the price to decide what is really important to them.

True worship is when a person, through their person, attains intimacy and friendship with God.