The premeditation of death is the premeditation of liberty; he who has learnt to die has forgot to serve.

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.

Shoot eagles on the Jack Nicklaus course, Porsche with the triple exhaust, Seats soft like a midget's cough.

Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

Simon Fraser University would make an elegant ruin

Ken has three kids. I have three kids. The first movie was basically the story of our lives. Every man is kind of a villain until he then has kids. And then, they soften us up.

There are a lot of folks at Fox News who bring a certain level of sophistication to their understanding of politics.

Humility is one of the most repulsive virtues, nearly always false.

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.

I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good.

Real life was something happening in her peripheral vision.

We are troubled, but we have hope and tremendous promise.