We cannot fail in following nature.

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.

One day, and it may be long off, but one day there will be bacon again. It might be mouse bacon, but that will do for me.

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and the other which we practice but seldom preach.

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.

A woman shouldn't heckle. In the public eye, you have to represent not only you but your spouse, too. You have to be a lady. She just has to sit there, clap, and look pretty.

Everything about her was warm and soft and scented; even the stains of her grief became her as raindrops do the beaten rose.

On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way.

God does not choose those who are fit. He outfits those whom He chooses.

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.

This country was founded by religious nuts with guns.

Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.