There are defeats more triumphant than victories.

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.

You're like a song that I heard when I was a little kid but forgot I knew until I heard it again.

Stars earn their brightest colors in the dark.

We learn from every experience to be wise.

I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.

Guys want to be respected and acknowledged. They want to feel what they contributed matters.

The one way to discover about aliens is to tune your radio telescope and listen to the signals.

Andrew Johnson wasn't too bad, but he was overwhelmed by a hostile Congress.

Gambling drains the economy by taking money away from grocery stores and retail businesses and putting it in the hands of an industry that produces no product

To withdraw is not to run away, and to stay is no wise action, when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Taste has nothing to do with style.