We are all patchwork, and so shapeless and diverse in composition that each bit, each moment, plays its own game.

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.

It's not my business to try and make God think like me... but to try, in prayer and penitence, to think like God.

The more especially, as in my juvenile frankness, I took some credit to myself for being so confidential and felt that I was quite the patron of my two respectful entertainers.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

I think sometimes you just lose your focus, and I think that's easy to do when you start getting more fame, more money, more power.

Along with being forever on the move, one is forever in a hurry, leaving things inadvertently behind-friend or fishing tackle, old raincoat or old allegiance.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

Men who take advantage of one woman take advantage of them all.

& I'm all up all up all up in the bank with the funny face

I got bored of not feeling affectionate towards girls.

My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.