Rash and incessant scolding runs into custom and renders itself despised.

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.

Where we come from... is not nearly as startling as where we are going.

DON'T DIE FOR ANYONE!!! You should rather live to love someone than die to prove it.

Travel at least erodes some of the narrowness that exists in each of us.

Art itself has become an extraordinary thing - the activity of peculiar people - people who become more and more peculiar as their activity becomes more and more extraordinary.

During my senior year I joined Skull and Bones, a secret society, so secret I can't say anything more.

The weird, weird thing about devastating loss is tha life actually goes on.

They say the recipe for Sprite is lemon and lime. I tried to make it at home. There's more to it than that.

I rejoiced in my progress, mourned my weaknesses, and commiserated the universal instability of human conduct.

If you aren't willing to have it, you will.

Warner Bros., where I spent pretty much most of my professional life, they continue to make a lot of movies but so many of the studios are pulling back.