We are nearer neighbors to ourselves than the whiteness of snow or the weight of stones are to us: if man does not know himself, how should he know his functions and powers?

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.

...your personality is the only permanent thing in your, ultimately, temporary life...that's all the more reason to cherish it...

Everything that I have ever hoped to accomplish, she has done and done better than anyone I have ever seen.

It's not a date. We're just agreeing to eat at the same table.

If you give a good idea to a mediocre group, they'll screw it up. If you give a mediocre idea to a good group, they'll fix it. Or they'll throw it away and come up with something else.

Let's just be smart this time. I'm looking for smart.

Applications for loans would be judged on a nation's social justice record as well as its economic efficiency.

My problem with public sector union leaders, the bosses, has been they stood in the way of protecting the taxpayer.

The individual leads in order that those who are led can develop their potential as human beings and thereby prosper.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter.