There is no knowledge so hard to acquire as the knowledge of how to live this life well and naturally.

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.

Solving the problem means helping the customer to understand why you’re the best person for the job

The wren goes to't

I did join the Revolutionary Guard, but I was simply a simple Revolutionary Guard, never a commander.

When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

Who is fit to govern others? He who governs himself. You might as well have said: nobody.

You should be able to do anything you can afford as an adult.

Literature must spring from the deep and submerged humus of our life.

Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour.

I was thinking, while I was running..." He paused. "About not hitting the trees, I hope.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.