The greatest thing in the world is to know how to live to yourself.

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.

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.

I took the plug out of the chemical bath of lust that my wits were soaking in and waited for it to empty. I smoked a cigarette while I contemplated the return of reason.

The remnants of his adolescent vulnerability were all over his face.

I'll fake it through the day somehow with Johnny Walker Red.

When there is a river in your growing up, you probably always hear it

I'm thinking, 'OK, we're about to fight.' I'm like, 'We're about to get it on right here at the VMAs?

We really need to get it together here. I think we humans are so brilliant and creative, can't we try something else?

...I'm no longer prepared to accept what people say and what's written in books. I must think things out for myself, and try to find my own answer.

The interesting thing is how one guy, through living out his own fantasies, is living out the fantasies of so many other people.

Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.