There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

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.

Beware of logic.

Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I have ever held it as a maxim never to do that through another which it was impossible for me to execute myself

Why travel - because the world was meant to be experienced, not imagined.

And he whose soul is flat -- the sky Will cave in on him by and by.

Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.

I don't really have disappointments, because I build myself up for rejection.

When a leader buys his own excuses, he also, unfortunately, sells them to his team.

But today when I am 17 and warm and well fed, I'm keeping this journal for myself so I can always remember life as we knew it, life as we know it, for a time when I am no longer in the sunroom.

Men are pigs. Too bad we own everything.