Tis the taste of effeminacy that disrelishes ordinary and accustomed things.

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.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.

How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment.

Your 40s are a major trough. About the age of 50, feelings of satisfaction begin to rebound and keep rising into your 50s, 60s and 70s, with health being a major factor.

You should never have to convince someone into loving you and wanting to be with you. You deserve to see someone who can easily see what's special in you.

Has God forgotten everything I've done for him ?

Love all, serve all, feed all.

A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of.

God designs people's emotions so you fall in love with people who, in return, wouldn't even use your hollowed-out skull for a spittoon.

We are challenged these days, but not changed; convicted, but not converted. We hear, but do not; and thereby we deceive ourselves.