Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

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 want you to say it, so I know you'll never forget. I want to hear you say my name.

No human, no matter how ancient, or how popular, can be above the laws of Nature.

I just want you to be happy. If that’s with me or with someone else or with nobody. I just want you to be happy.

You must see it. You must believe it. And then you must never stop working to make it happen.

Beneath all the wealth of detail in a geological map lies an elegant, orderly simplicity.

You've got to work hard for your success and you've got to have a steady presence. That's the secret.

It's hard to get justice in the real world. It's possible in fiction.

We should wash our dirty linen at home.

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.

I worked for Sam Peckinpah on quite a bit of action in his films, and he got excited once in a while.