There is no more expensive thing than a free gift.

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.

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

I do care a great deal about the environment but my real work and my greatest challenge is trying to overcome deceits that end up jeopardizing public health and safety.

Stress is what feeds your cancer. Stress is what gives you cancer and then there's the paparazzi giving you stress.

I'm not trying to make friends, I'm trying to make money.

I have no baggage in politics. I've never been a politician. I don't owe anybody anything.

Great love isn't two people finding the perfect match in one another. Great love is two people making the choice to be a match.

In infinite space, even the most unlikely events must take place somewhere.

Old age is the only disease you dont want to be cured of.

I think that everything in this life is a story you know; our own narrative, our own history, it's all a story.

The denizens of Citizens Service Houses are not, as a rule, gifted with a lot of common sense, but they often make up for that by being extremely argumentative and vindictive.