Since philosophy is the art which teaches us how to live, and since children need to learn it as much as we do at other ages, why do we not instruct them in it?

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.

It is impossible not to live miserably if one chooses to frequently focus on one's disappointments, mistakes, failures, weaknesses, difficulties, and people's negative opinions.

Life is a Mystery, not a problem waiting to be solved.

Your father," Luke said, "what did he say to you when you saw him? What did he promise you?" "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets.

Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment.

I answered the voice that I was a poor girl who knew nothing of riding and warfare.

The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science can't answer every question

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

But my sense in talking to people when I travel is that the film business is not that dissimilar from a lot of other businesses.

Estrangement shows itself precisely in the elimination of distance between people.

Piano is like drudgery.