There is no man so good who were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the laws would not deserve hanging ten times in his life.

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 have no name, " she purred. "I'm whoever the keepers of my fate tell me to be.

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

Straw shows which way the wind is blowing.

I do not want to get rid of the safety net, I want to get rid of dependency.

Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah

It was really important in my relationship with James Caan that I understood the relationship between the family and the father.

The greatest single antidote to violence is conversation.

I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.

Angels will frequently - even when they're comforting us with good news - touch the awe of God's eternal presence and drive us to our knees before our God of glory.

You never have to question something that's real.