There is no doubt that Greek and Latin are great and handsome ornaments, but we buy them too dear.

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.

The Gospel takes away our right forever, to discriminate between the deserving and the undeserving poor.

The difficult is what takes a little time. The impossible is what takes a little longer.

After the dress rehearsal that afternoon, someone had misplaced the vial of poison, and for lack of better, Romeo would have to commit suicide by eating Tic Tacs.

True luxury is being able to own your time - to be able to take a walk, sit on your porch, read the paper, not take the call, not be compelled by obligation.

You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.

I've been working in boutique hotels my whole life.

I'm not that much of a researcher. I'm good at channeling characters, and I'm good at structure.

In order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times.

All of my projects are done right because I know the game, and I consider myself a rap expert.