To make a crooked stick straight, we bend it the contrary way.

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.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

Hire great people and give them freedom to be awesome.

I have two speeds. Fast and faster. I don't just run. I take it.

The better the script is the more you can commit, but you can only really commit with full confidence when you know the material is as strong as your level of commitment to it and it frees you up.

If our love for each other really is participatory, then all other human relationships nourish it; it is inclusive, never exclusive.

There's a misperception about actors that we actually choose the roles we end up doing - it's more that we're chosen for them.

I don't look back. I'm like a shark - I only look forward.

If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment.

I am thankful that my name in obnoxious to no pun.

Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.