The knowledge of courtesy and good manners is a very necessary study. It is like grace and beauty, that which begets liking and an inclination to love one another at the first sight.

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.

Let your playerhaters be your motivators.

The gods, if they exist, are just the people who happen to live on the other side.

Choose love not in the shallows but in the deep.

The smallest fault of women who give themselves up to love is to love.

I'd been trained as a classical musician, but also as a pop musician. My teacher made sure that everything was available.

If you do the best thing everyday of your life, but nothing shakes you nor shakes the table for you and others, it is stale and its not worth it.

A bird without wings and a man without art are both condemned to wander in low places; they can never soar up to those unrivalled heights.

Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.