There is no passion so much transports thesincerity of judgement as doth anger

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.

Long as I was riding in a big Cadillac and dressed nice and had plenty of food, that's all I cared about.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

When I left New York, after getting fired from Metallica, all I remember is that I wanted blood. Theirs.

Clergymen have much the same in their breeches as other men.

Real luxury is understanding quality, and having the time to enjoy it.

That's my job. To imagine harder than you can.

I do have some kind of gravitational pull towards young characters with more responsibility than they should have.

But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

The piebald mare paws at the sand; I see her digging out of the corner of my eye and hear her grinding her teeth. That bridle's her curse, this island her prison. She still smells of rot.

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