There is not one of us that would not be worse than kings, if so continually corrupted as they are with a sort of vermin called flatterers.

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 don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.

A strong mind focuses not on its obstacle, but on the reward that lies at the end of it.

I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.

If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

So if I design it and then go away, it's still living somewhere and it still exists by itself without me.

Blessed be the memory of him who gave the world this immortal game

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Be not under the dominion of thine own will; it is the vice of the ignorant, who vainly presume on their own understanding.

All art is exploitation.