The greatest thing in the world is to know how to be one's own self

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.

Oh, how wonderfully romantic of you. Romantics are really only in love with themselves.

If Christians always seemed to be the most intelligent and the most righteous of men, I'd be a skeptic.

From the very beginning, there was not the slightest doubt that Olga da Polga was the sort of guinea pig who would go places.

Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.

I realize that I want something more. Success is great, but then you also wake up in your hotel room at four in the morning and you're like, wouldn't it be nice to have someone here with me.

You put your heart and soul into something, and you really hope that people love it as much as you do.

Boundless in your charity, but shrewd and cautious as a lender, you delight all those today whom you made beggars the day before.

You always ought to have tom cats arranged, you know - it makes 'em more companionable.

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.

Water cannot rise higher than its source, neither can human reason.