Our own peculiar human condition is that we are as fit to be laughed at as able to laugh.

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.

God is my counselor .

Shall I compare thee to a barrel of apples?Though art more hairy, but sweeter inside.Rough winds couldn't keep me from taking you to chapel, Where finally a horse could take a bride...

This ship is built to fight. You had better know how.

Scientists have found a way to keep middle-aged female mice from going through menopause. Now they're working on a way to keep middle-aged male mice from buying expensive sports cars.

There's no right or wrong in the study of enlightenment. There's only experience.

People begin running for any number of motives, but we stick to it for one basic reason-to find out who we really are.

Perhaps the safest prediction we can make about the future is that it will surprise us.

As for life, it is a battle and a sojourning in a strange land; but the fame that comes after is oblivion.

The possession of unnecessary implements makes difficult the collection of taxes and dues and tends to foment uprisings.

A woman who wears high heels is very different, I think, than a woman who wears sandals.