There is, nevertheless, a certain respect and a general duty of humanity that ties us, not only to beasts that have life and sense, but even to trees and plants.

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.

Virtue comes by nature, learning, and practice, and thanks to virtue, all of the aforesaid may deserve approval.

I don't seem to be able to learn from experience or anything useful. History doesn't help me. Precedents don't inform my experience.

People who are very vain are usually equally susceptible; and they who feel one thing acutely, will so feel another.

Remember that all models are wrong; the practical question is how wrong do they have to be to not be useful.

Jackie Chan is a myth.

A friendship counting nearly forty years is the finest kind of shade-tree I know.

To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

'El Otro Lado' has heavy emphasis on the bass and loads of nice little touches and sounds you really notice on a big system.

My pitch is very simple. I'm Theresa May and I think I'm the best person to be prime minister of this country.

Temperance is the wisdom to know that not every constructive job requires a hammer.