Pleasure itself is painful at the bottom.

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.

Wouldst thou know if a people be well governed, or if its laws be good or bad, examine the music it practices.

I’m just waiting for the violent urges to subside.

'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.

I've had to find my sanity.

Ye have no need to fight, stand ye still and see the salvation of the Lord.

I love photography and art-directing is something that I really would enjoy to do.

If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.

When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable.

I'm an intellectual Thatcherite, just as I was an intellectual Powellite, and I think it important that the Conservative party should be in good hands and that it should win elections.

If you don't know when to be a human being, you don't know when to be a witch.