The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us.

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.

God will always watch out for our best, providing us with what we need and a soft landing when we seem to be falling.

There is no small act of kindness.Every compassionate act makes large the world.

People will come to love their oppression, to adore the technologies that undo their capacities to think.

Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country.

I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.

There's a very small percentage of people that take limos to school and have $2000 handbags - no one in my high school had that!

True love turns words and feelings into actions.

People are the custodians of the world's wealth; if you want them to hand some over to you, you have to be nice to people!

Broadway is really my life.

The pure products of America go crazy--mountain folk from Kentucky or the ribbed north end of Jersey with its isolate lakes and valleys, its deaf-mutes, thieves.