Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately.

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.

Too many people live miserable lives, but they don’t do anything to change them.

Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as.

Texas does not, like any other region, simply have indigenous dishes. It proclaims them. It congratulates you, on your arrival, at having escaped from the slop pails of the other 49 states.

One piece of pie is delicious. Fourteen pieces are obviously nauseating.

If I can look at each character that I am given and create them in a different way from the last role, I'm happy.

Learn to move man, through God, by prayer alone

In loving and serving, we prove that we have been created in the likeness of God, for God is Love and when we love we are like God.

All human behavior is either an act of love or a cry for love.

We are the accidental result of an unplanned process ... the fragile result of an enormous concatenation of improbabilities, not the predictable product of any definite process.

As I ramble through life, whatever be my goal, I will unfortunately always keep my eye upon the doughnut and not upon the whole.