The most evident token and apparent sign of true wisdom is a constant and unconstrained rejoicing.

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.

What I know is that if you put the right policies in place that will lead to economic growth, society will be better.

Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.

I used to talk about my personal life all the time. It's the most fun thing to talk about, the people in my life are hurt.

Once you get to that point when you can just be yourself and relax, I just think that you're so much happier in general.

There's a lot of actors out there or people who want to be actors. It's unique to find somebody that, you know, needs to be an actor.

Instead of hoping he must fear and instead of fearing he must hope. He must fear that his loss may develop into a much bigger loss, and hope that his profit may become a big profit.

From a young age I had learned to get over--to cover my tracks emotionally, to hide or ignore my problems in the belief that they were mine alone to solve.

Fear, Craft and Avarice Cannot rear a State.

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible form of charity.

The alternative to discipline is disaster