The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

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 value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

A book with the genuine power to stir and comfort its readers.

A righteous husband is a responsible husband.

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

"Novels and gardens," she says. "I like to move from plot to plot."

The history of science is a record of the transformations of contempts amd amusements.

There are two kinds of cruises - pleasure and with children.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I clutched at the brow. The mice in my interior had now got up an informal dance and were buck-and-winging all over the place like a bunch of Nijinskys.

Close your eyes, fall in Love, stay there.

One must strive to be as honest as you are humanly capable with yourself and others. It is impossible to move forward otherwise.