We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

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.

She was always at her best with him, with a delightful feeling of being understood. To love is easy and therefore common - but to understand - how rare it is!

I was unprepared for the firsthand experience of mindfulness. The way that awareness … revealed a sense of well-being right there in the heat of my emotions.

Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.

Doing classic plays is wonderful. It's a wonderful way of developing style.

People evolve and grow, and life is fascinating and fun and tragic.

I won't mention the word tired. This is the 20th century and I can go around a little faster.

There is no doubt in my mind and I know in my time, there will be a Canadian basketball player playing for Toronto Raptors, 100%

Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.

I have an ulcer. It has an IQ of 185.

Thought is the property of him who can entertain it, and of him who can adequately place it.