Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

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.

Power is the ability to take one's place in whatever discourse is essential to action and the right to have one's part matter.

I always wanted to do a story on the blues that not only reflected its nature and its content, but also alludes to the form itself…In short, a story that gives you the impression of the blues.

In the past I've been hard on the vegans. I've called them Prius-driving fascists, but now I am one of them. I have been turned to the dark side.

I feel like I've been watching Irwin Corey forever. I saw him in the 1950s, and I thought he was old then.

It is a wearisome disease to preserve health by too strict a regimen.

Men, as a general rule, shy away from therapy because there is no obvious way to keep score.

I live about six miles from where I was born and raised.

I think there are other issues that the Democrats could use to rally evangelicals. There are a lot of us, for instance, who believe that the Bible calls us to be environmentally responsible.

If we do what we do without panicking, we can accomplish great things.

few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.