There are few things on which we can pass a sincere judgement, because there are few things in which we have not, in one way or another, a particular interest.

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.

I try to improvise like Les Young, Louis Armstrong or someone else I admire. What comes out is what I feel.

It is easy to sympathize at a distance,' said an old gentleman with a beard. 'I value more the kind word that is spoken close to my ear.

I trow that countenance cannot lie,Whose thoughts are legible in the eie.

Never by hatred is hatred appeased, but it is appeased by kindness. This is an eternal truth.

Even in the days of the tightest credit in 2008, HELOCs [ home equity line of credit ] and home equity loans were being made.

I enjoy being on my own. I feel like I have more room to stretch. I have to go with the flow.

I do better on the first three takes; I won't be better at 20 takes.

Every field and flower fades, but love is infinite.

Affirmations don't make something happen; they make something welcome.

I throw my curveball like Clayton Kershaw and my fastball like Mo'ne Davis.