Our speech has its weaknesses and its defects, like all the rest. Most of the occasions for the troubles of the world are grammatical.

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.

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

There is nothing new in art except talent.

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

Our lives have a countdown clock that we can't see. Mine reminds me to only do work that matters.

I am no artist - please come and help me.

Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Standing Rock is a moment in history. We really have to grab it and go with it.

The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.