To smell, though well, is to stink.

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.

And worse I may be yet: the worst is notSo long as we can say 'This is the worst.

The more you give of yourself, the more you find yourself.

If you do not want to be forgotten as soon as you are dead...be read, or try coming back and pull the feet of those who are still alive instead!

How wrong and petty any life is.

Object-oriented programming is an exceptionally bad idea which could only have originated in California.

The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

The gratitude ... should be commensurate with the boundless blessings which we enjoy.

Christians are simply pilgrims who acknowledge their lostness and their desire for help in finding the way.

It's no accident that Tony Hopkins is a wonderful film actor.