The wise man lives as long as he ought, not so long as he can.

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.

The spotlight does not change a person, it simply reveals what one has mastered in the darkness

Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.

City lights shine bright on my complexion, Self-reflection...red hairs flashing at the intersection. Life is a green light, one star, no script, Supporting actors...fresh peaches, no pit.

I never gave up, even when people told me I'd never make it.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

For me, the greatest hurdle to success has always been failure.

There's a special feeling you get on a veranda that you just can't get anywhere else.

Thoughts exchanged by one and another are not the same in one room as in another.

I think in general in my teens I had a lot of crushes on men on the Internet, most notably Momus since I was in my late teens. John Darnielle was also another big crush.

Only tyrannies understand the power of art.