Physicians have this advantage: the sun lights their success and the earth covers their failures.

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.

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

The strong survive.

All Southern state colleges and universities are open to black students.

Creativity is mistakes.

I'm not a method actress.

I've played everything but the harp.

You've got to realize that when all goes well, and everything is beautiful, you have no comedy. It's when somebody steps on the bride's train, or belches during the ceremony that you've got comedy!

In their field they [mathematicians] do what we ought to be doing in ours. Therein lies the significant lesson ... of their existence. They are an analogy for the intellectual of the future.

Normal is a cycle on the washing machine. There is no such thing when it comes to human beings.

For while the threat of nuclear holocaust has been significantly reduced, the world remains a very unsettled and dangerous place.