The archer who overshoots his mark does no better than he who falls short of 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.

God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.

He, who beats his wife defies his goddess

Everybody wants to make a difference, but nobody wants to be different. And you simply cannot have one without the other.

The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then.

I will give up my belief in evolution if someone finds a fossil rabbit in the Precambrian.

Know the business you're in for whatever you do, know it and understand how it works so you can be successful.

Do some interesting things that you have never done before! Add more colours to your life; enrich your existence with every kind of oddities!

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.

How much of Africa had been explored out of simple hatred?.

Misfortunes should always be expected.