The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.

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.

Through its appropriation of "texts of terror" and especially through the application of those texts to the Jews, the Christian religion created the conditions for the oppression of Palestinians.

I know a lot of people think, 'She's so glamorous.' But that's really not me at all.

In the end, love wins. It does win. We know it wins. When a person dies, love isn’t turned off like a faucet. It is an amazingly resilient part of us.

We bring together the best ideas - turning the meetings of our top managers into intellectual orgies.

I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one.

I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.

I thought she was the funniest woman, and I believed being a comedian was the most exciting thing you could be.

You should be kissed everyday, every hour, every minute.

Is not every meanest day the confluence of two eternities?

A room without books is like a life without meaning.