We may so seize on virtue, that if we embrace it with an overgreedy and violent desire, it may become vicious.

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.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

When I get married, it'll be no secret.

Without sound, celebration and grief look nearly the same.

I still love making hamburgers on the grill. I guess whenever I eat them childhood memories come up for me.

don't be angry with the gentleman for thinking, whatever be the cause, for I assure you he makes no common practice of offending in that way.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

It is our own thoughts that hold the key to miraculous transformation.

I think the goal is in general to broaden my fans' perspectives and their horizons. Not to be cliché. But to introduce them to things that they may not have introduced to themselves.

Sure as the most certain sure, plumb in the uprights, well entretied, braced in the beams, Stout as a horse, affectionate, haughty, electrical, I and this mystery here we stand.

If the crop of any one year was all, a man would have to cut his throat every time it hailed.