All the fame I look for in life is to have lived it quietly.

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.

Dare to live with yourself

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.

There is the potential for your beliefs to be infinite and limitless.

If state, party and social policy will not be based on morality, then mankind has no future to speak of.

It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

I paint when I cannot photograph.

Like I always said, if I'm one of the top players in the game, pay me like I'm one of the top players in the game.