To philosophize is to learn to die.

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 as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

Make the difficult habitual, the habitual easy, and the easy beautiful.

The time is coming when we have to stand before the Lord to give account of our works

A moment of care carries us away!The fragrance of forgiveness elevates usImperfections are essentially universalDivine love drives our desire.

I'm a romantic at heart.

Sometimes we stand to learn the most about God from the situations we understand the least.

The activities you are most afraid of are the activities that can cause a breakthrough in your success. Step into them.

I want to be normal. I really want anonymity.

Leadership, like swimming, cannot be learned by reading about it.

A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.