Since I would rather make of him an able man than a learned man, I would also urge that care be taken to choose a guide with a well-made rather than a well-filled head.

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.

You are a leader when your actions encourage someone to reveal himself with hope, courage, confidence and trust.

More than kisses letters mingle souls.

You can see what man made from the seat of an automobile, but the best way to see what God made is from the back of a horse.

Men ask the way to Cold Mountain, Cold Mountain: there's no through trail.

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young.

I'm the hunter," Elena reminded him. "I should go first." "Of course you may go first. When I am dead.

I fell in love with Scotland and made good friends here, so I stayed after graduating with Honours in Chemistry.

There can be no theory of any account unless it corroborate with the theory of the earth.

It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.