The least strained and most natural ways of the soul are the most beautiful; the best occupations are the least forced.

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 nights are always meaningless without hopes for tomorrow.

Let your children nourish their knack, for that knack shall one day provide them with the way to live with dignity and contentment.

If you want your lie to be believed then you need to speak thousand truths before you lie.

An echo is an imperfect copy of the original, it is information but it is information from a different time and place.

Whenever my mum gets depressed about her age, she goes to Paris.

Parenting is no sport for perfectionists.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

It cannot bring back and make whole those who suffered and died by a racist's criminal hand. But it can at least reaffirm our nation's commitment to seek the truth and make equal justice a reality.

I'll probably die by the time I reach 25. But I'll have lived the way I wanted to.