We find our energies are actually cramped when we are overanxious to succeed.

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.

What chilling blows we suffer-thanks to our conflicting wills-whenever we show these mortal men some kindness.

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are.

The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.

The people's voice is odd, It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Long before I became 'rich and famous' I just sat round drinking wine and staring at the walls.

A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top.

Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.

The old oaken bucket, the iron-bound bucket, The moss-covered bucket, which hung in the well.