Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

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.

acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.

The view, though. The view. It is undeniably exhilarating.

Resentment is the act of stabbing yourself repeatedly in the heart with a knife, hoping the other person dies.

As long as you leave to others the responsibility to make you happy, you will always be miserable, because that is actually your job

I always took 'Coronation Street' a year at a time anyway. It was the 50th anniversary I'd been there five years. It just felt right to leave.

Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of state.

Is it not in the struggle to obtain knowledge that happiness exists? I am very ignorant, consequently the conditions of happiness are mine.

Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism.

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

There's nothing that does so much harm as good intentions.