The man who thinks he knows does not yet know what knowing is

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.

I'll try to turn the other cheek....But I've only got two and they're both stinging.

I part my lips, but no words come out. I want to cry. Want to beg. Want to scream. But mostly, I want to hold him until I know he’s going to be okay. Then I want him to hold me until I’m okay, too.

If you have a deep-seated need to be loved and admired every day, you shouldn't be in politics. You should go work at a pet store.

The handsome gifts that fate and nature lend us Most often are the very ones that end us.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

Like many highly educated people, I didn't have much in the way of actual skills.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

I had to help them. There was no choice.

I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.

We'll be chopped up before you can say 'King Maggot'.