The sage says that all that is under heaven incurs the same law and the same fate.

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.

To live a little, love a little. To live a lot, love a lot.

Time is on its eternal journey at the same time it is motionless, emotionless and standing still.

A house without security cannot be a home!

I'm nervous whenever I perform.

It will be found, as men grow more tolerant in their instincts, that many uniformities now insisted upon are useless and even harmful.

Sometimes I still can't believe my luck.

Plans are useless, but planning is essential.

Often the doorway to success is entered through the hallway of failure.

The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave.

It's not finished until it's documented.