Some, either from being glued to vice by a natural attachment, or from long habit, no longer recognize its ugliness.

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.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

The only difference between writers and people who don't write is that writers aren't afraid to display their demons.

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

I've never liked watching real-life couples play couples onscreen or onstage. It takes me out of the story.

The same folks that are bombing innocent people in Iraq were the ones who attacked us in America on September the 11th.

All peace-loving women shut up when they sense they have stepped onto Guy Turf. Guy Turf is a murky realm of ego and pride and chivalry and testosterone and heroism.

The thing I always thought of myself as was an actress. I never thought: I want to be. It was always: I am.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself.

Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you

To generalize is to be an idiot. To particularize is the alone distinction of merit. General knowledge are those knowledge that idiots possess.