Virtue shuns ease as a companion. It demands a rough and thorny path.

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.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

The need to create a citadel in which to hide from the world is characteristic of people with a schizoid disposition

If God had wanted you to wear earrings, he'd have made you a girl.

You can't lead by example if you are a bad example. If you stink at something, stop doing in front of everyone until you improve!

You can tell when someone is putting on a role. If someone really believes in what theyre saying, its quite hard to find cracks.

But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined

Celebrity is very weird.

Poetry operates by raising our curiosity, engaging the mind by degrees to take an interest in the event, keeping that event suspended, and surprising at last with an unexpected catastrophe.

Travel is an act of humility

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.