There is no passion so much transports the sincerity 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.

One and all do mistakes, that doesn’t mean they all are sinner

Only against death does man cry out in vain.

There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent.

Many innovations fail because consumers irrationally overvalue the old while companies irrationally overvalue the new.

Freedom is not to be destroyed in the name of love. Freedom is a far higher value than your so-called love.

Look, any cut in greenhouse gases is going to be expensive for American consumers, who are in no mood to bear additional costs.

I have met a few Casanovas I like and a few I have not liked - and I hope to meet a few more.

We are constantly being put to the test by trying circumstances and difficult people and problems not necessarily of our own making.

There are good books which are only for adults. There are no good books which are only for children.

Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both.