There is nothing in which a horse's power is better revealed than in a neat, clean stop.

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.

Any leadership that is observant and committed to its people, will always find better ways to solve problems.

Peace is one of the most obvious earmarks of the authority of Christ.

A writer learns that easy to read is hard to write ...

There will never be another woman for me, Alexandra. You are my eternity. -Michael

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

You never know the palette of the one you kill until the mind disgorges its finest colours.

I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.

I have made the tough decisions, always with an eye toward the bottom line. Perhaps it's time America was run like a business.

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

When I dream about music, or think about music, by myself, I try to be as free as possible and allow my creative mind full reign.