The lack of wealth is easily repaired but the poverty of the soul is irreplaceable.

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.

There is no greater misery than false joys.

Gratefulness and forgiveness leads to happiness.

If you are smart be simple. If you are powerful be generous. If you are rich be humble. If you want to be smart be simple. If you want to be powerful be generous. If you want to be rich be humble.

Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.

Winning is coming in fourth, exhausted but excited, because you came in fifth last time.

Conscience is a cudgel which all men pick up in order to thwack their neighbors instead of applying it to their own shoulders.

By the time I was a teenager, there wasn't a show I hadn't inhaled or a character I hadn't met.

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

Heaven & Hell are both creations of desire.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.