To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquillity in our conduct.

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.

Take your beliefs into your everyday life. Practice what you preach. Self-observe. Correct. Try. Keep trying. Never give up.

Nothing is more on the nose, than sun cream.

For somehow this disease inheres in tyranny, never to trust one's friends.

Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.

Without a rifle you are nothing, worthless, you are waiting for death, any minute, any second.

There is such a thing as a national conscience, and it can be touched.

In secluding himself too much from society, an author is in danger of losing that intimate acquaintance with life which is the only sure foundation of power in a writer.

I try not to listen to a lot of music when I'm starting the recording process, because it can be so subtly influential.

My mom's Jewish and my dad's Irish Catholic alcoholic, so I whine on the inside.

I wasn't out drinking and abusing my body. I simply loved to go out and dance.