We must learn to suffer what we cannot evade.

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 started long before this, when stars were mere particles in swirling clouds of dust. And every event since has conspired to bring us together.

It was a place you could make into a home if your home hadn’t worked out.

The skin of her face, parched by the monotonous dietof salty rain, with tremendous effortgave wayto a smile.

Be smarter than others imagined.Be braver than others anticipated.Be stronger than others calculated.Be better than others envisioned.

God will forgive me that is His business.

At last some curious traveller from Lima will visit England, and give a description of the ruins of St. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra.

Quite obviously a cat trusts human beings; but she doesn't trust another cat because she knows better than we do.

Those we love don't go away, they sit beside us every day.

The way I've been with drink and drugs suggests I have a tendency to get addicted to things.

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been used by a man.