We judge a horse not only by its pace on a racecourse, but also by its walk, nay, when resting in its stable.

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.

Maturity is not when we start speaking big things.It is when we start understanding the small things ....... @R$H

Know thy sacred soul

I will be all that I am capable of being.

This is why I read novels: so I can escape my own unrelenting monologue.

If you learn to enjoy waiting, you don't have to wait to enjoy.

I earnestly long for more grace and personal holiness, and more usefulness.

I am perfectly happy to compromise whether it's with Democrats or anybody else, as long as we're reducing the size of government.

Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive pattern upon them.

Faith, Fanatic faith, once wedded fast to some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last.

A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late.