The dispersing and scattering our names into many mouths, we call making them more great.

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.

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before and, to be honest with you I wanted to see a blue duck.

It has been said that I make chick flicks. This is not a compliment.

It is human choices that move events.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

Whether you prevail or fail depends more on what you do to yourself than on what the world does to you.

In American elections there are no losers, because whether or not our candidates win or lose, the next morning we wake up as Americans.

Marathons are hard because of the physical pain, the pounding on the muscles, joints, tendons.

There are so many people, deaf or otherwise abled, who are so talented but overlooked or not given a chance to even get their foot in the door.

Even in the most difficult situation there is always, somehow, a way to triumph