We are never present with, but always beyond ourselves; fear, desire, hope, still push us on toward the future.

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.

I'm hopeless at playing scales. Try and be instinctive first and analytic afterwords, although it's good to study the theory of music.

Every revolution eventually needs a new revolution.

We damaged all the big guns we could, and carried away the powder and the lead.

I don't say anything wacky about women. I have more respect for women than anybody would understand and I'm going to give people jobs and I'm going to protect people.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Art transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary.

There is always someone there to lend a hand.

It is the life in literature that acts upon life.

Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

I think that being vulnerable is about feeling helpless, or powerless... it's about allowing myself to be in a place where I could be hurt.