The laws of conscience, though we ascribe them to nature, actually come from custom.

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.

Simplicity is the language of leadership.

Sometimes it's better not to ask-or to listen-when tell you something can't be done. I didn't ask for permission or approval. I just went ahead and did it.

It seemed hardly feasible that anyone could tune an oil barrel, and even less credible that the barrel could make music like nothing else in the world. She thought those sounds were magic.

...to swear with a ferocity that can only be described as a talent.

Pride cannot be hidden just like humility cannot be faked.

When you focus on problems, you'll have more Problems. When you focus on possibilities, you'll have more oppertunities.

Did they look like anyone we know? For example… a cross between Pippi Longstocking and the Wicked Witch of the West would obviously give us Marcie Millar

You can be in London at 10 o'clock and in New York at 10 o'clock. I have never found another way of being in two places at once.

For a while it was hard for me to say no to work.

I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.