Any person of honor chooses rather to lose his honor than to lose his conscience.

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.

The better the writer, the more complicated the dangler.

As every cat owner knows, nobody owns a cat.

Everyone has a different beauty and different qualities and I think that women need to learn to love their qualities and be comfortable in the fact that everyone is different.

An attempt to write nothing but characterization will soon bog down; I for one don't want to have somebody tell me about someone else.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

Marriage is an institution necessary to the maintenance of society but contrary to the laws of nature.

The older you get, the more you realize that the way you look is a reflection of how you treat yourself.

Love is the greatest force on earth to resist, limit and ultimately halt evil's deadly progression.

People who focus exclusively on efforts that matter, succeed. It's that simple.