Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

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.

Faith and freedom is great, but it gets nowhere without faith in freedom.

Write as an audience member. Write what you want to see, feel and hear.

To the yogi, all experience is seen as one, as a means to help him cultivate devotion. All experiences have equal meaning and value. (154)

I'm a radio nerd. I've loved radio since I was a kid. I'm a huge Howard Stern fan.

All true love is grounded on esteem.

You know, when you're poor and you have a bunch of kids in your family, you don't know that everybody's not poor.

Apparently sometimes my humor is dryer than a desert.

Women's regular bleeding engenders phantoms.

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.