'Tis the sharpness of our mind that gives the edge to our pains and pleasures.

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.

The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write.

A good poem looks life straight in the face, unflinching, sincere, equal to revelation through loss or gain.

A school is a place through which you have to pass before entering life, but where the teaching proper does not prepare you for life.

Each dot: the center of a circle without circumference...

I didn't really enjoy modeling in Bombay. I floated through it in the hopes that I would get my ticket to the next big thing. There was no real joy that I got out of it, to be really honest.

[Art] can speak its own language only as long as the images are alive which refuse and refute the established order.

The devil helps his servants for a season; but when they get into a pinch; he leaves them in the lurch.

If only the good were a little less heavy-footed

Real optimism has reason to complain but prefers to smile.

Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must.