Every movement reveals us.

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.

Do it first and feel about it afterwards.' - Dagny Taggart

The more words you know, the more clearly and powerfully you will think...and the more ideas you will invite into your mind.

Ivy was particularly adept at being ignorant but could cause extensive havoc with the smallest scrap of information.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

The slander of some people is as great a recommendation as the praise of others.

I had a background in theater as an actor, and then a photographer, and then as an experimental filmmaker and editor.

Reality is never more than a first step towards an unknown on the road to which one can never progress very far.

My work is loving the world.

The best way for a person to have happy thoughts is to count his blessings and not his cash. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.