The word is half his that speaks and half his that hears it.

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.

Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! Life flies

This (San Francisco) is the most beautiful city in America, Probably because it looks nothing like America

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

She was finally owned up- it took death as a price for her being accepted.

I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other.

The right decision is the wrong decision if it's made too late.

It's hard to imagine there's a place for great writing inside a multinational conglomerate.

How's it going down there?" "It's weird. They're too polite, they talk funny, and stuff has too much shine on it. But the coffee's worse than Central's, so that's something.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

There was the misconception out there that I retired after the 2008 season, but that was never the case. I wasn't done with basketball yet, and I'm still not done.