There are as many and innumerable degrees of wit, as there are cubits between this and heaven.

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.

Vigorous writing is concise.

If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.

They say I'm a one-horse trainer but didn't I make a good job of it?

Children need systems that are inclusive and driven by them, systems that will enable them to respond to their feelings and needs at any time.

I do not want no pretty woman. First thing you know, you fall in love with her-then you got to kill somebody about her. She'll make you so jealous, you'll bust!

The movie, by sheer speeding up of the mechanical, carried us from the world of sequence and connections into the world of creative configurations and structure.

All I really want is a three-room house. The home I have designed at my new farm in Bedford, New York, is a three-room house: bedroom on top, living room in the middle, and kitchen on the ground.

People think [baseball players] make $3 million and $4 million a year. They don't realize that most of us only make $500,000.

It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.