When Socrates, after being relieved of his irons, felt the relish of the itching that their weight had caused in his legs, he rejoiced to consider the close alliance between pain and pleasure.

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.

I find it boring and a waste of time debating other people’s opinions, however challenging my own is always intriguing and there is where I inevitably discover growth.

It looks as if British democracy died a few years ago, and nobody noticed.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

My elementary school days were miserable. After Star Search, the jealousy got really bad that our neighbors slashed our tires.

My love for the band is still there. It hasn't changed, maybe that's why it's so painful these days.

Whatever a person's ultimate concern may be, it will have an enormous influence on everything else the person does or believes.

Certainty is the enemy of change.

I wear whatever makes me comfortable on stage, so that I feel confident. Some days it's a plaid skirt with a button-up and other days it's jeans with a hockey jersey and platforms.

If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

One simply cannot pay tribute to Stephen Covey without saying at the outset that he was a lovely human being.