Tortures are a dangerous invention, and seem to be a test of endurance rather than of truth.

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.

Never abandon your personal message. No matter what comes your way, remain dedicated to that which you hold close to your heart

Authority in its very nature prevents the full awareness of oneself and therefore ultimately destroys freedom

G-rated language is making me a less angry person. Behavior shapes emotion.

Man is a pliant animal a being who gets accustomed to anything.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves.

One mark of a deteriorating society is when people cannot discern between truth and lies. Another is that they don't care and will believe whatever their itching ears want to hear.

I'm not really much of a prankster, but I've definitely been pranked. I never really liked being pranked, so I generally try not to prank people.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

Whatever I do might be good, it might be bad, it might be all sorts of things, but it's not mediocre.