Vexations may be petty, but they are vexations still.

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 you want the rainbow you gotta put up with the rain.

Each generation of pilots hopes that they will leave their profession better off than they found it.

He [george W. Bush] lived up - well, he was someone that I wouldn't have voted for. His policies were not mine.

All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.

For knowledge, too, is itself power.

The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.

It's like that scene from The Player when they talk about merging Star Wars and Kramer vs. Kramer, or whatever. You could do that with music and it would just be awful.

Where has the genius of the pedistal [sic] of the laws and constitution of our boasted country fled?

You get burned a lot as an actor. You give somebody, you give some guy real free reign and he just doesn't know how to edit it properly. It just comes out messed up.

The introduction of resistance in form of sand and hill is too important to be ignored.