There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions.

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.

Profound desire, true desire is the desire to be close to someone.

Many stories magnify a fact.

I could see the bay in the distance and where the ship should have been. Instead we found a burnt mast protruding from the waves.

Power has got to be the most intoxicating thing in the world—and of all forms of power the most intoxicating is fame.

I think I still get something from the original broadcaster but I'm certainly not aware of any Netflix van driving to my house and unloading a load of cash into my front yard.

Challenge doesn't come to small people. Challenge comes to great people.

There should be a word that means beginning/end because nothing begins without something dying.

I just want Aerosmith to always give me a hard-on, that's all I ever ask for, for it to be the most special thing in my life. As long as I look at it through those eyes, it will always be that way.

It is funnier to bend things than to break them.

The sleek, expensive girls I teach, Younger and pinker every year, Bloom gradually out of reach.