We are nearer neighbours to ourselves than whiteness to snow, or weight to stones.

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.

Because of her singing they all went away feeling moved, feeling comforted, feeling, perhaps, the slightest tremors of faith.

We are all carousers and loose women here; How unhappy we are together!

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

Krishna is God, the source of all that exists, the cause of all that is, was, or ever will be.

I know you don't want to hear this but someone has to say it! You are out of control! I mean they're just shoes... let it go!

I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.

He who sows courtesy reaps friendship.

You've got to go down the road you naturally go down, and for me it was pop, folk country, just feel-good music. I suppose most of my songs are very up-tempo.

And I remember walking in there and, I must say, I was quite unnerved the closer I got to it.