The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

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 wasn’t worth it, but at the time it was. And that’s all that mattered.

[W]e need to think twice about raining down vengeance and anger as our default position.

Contributors and distributors tend to do better at personal branding than takers and fakers.

Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

I have always regarded the forward edge of the battlefield as the most exclusive club in the world

A member of my family, who shall remain nameless, refers to all newborns as ‘blobs’.

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.