Fame and tranquility can never be bedfellows.

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.

It's really cool to see glowsticks at the show, to see dance music culture infiltrating and becoming one with the metal community.

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.

Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

I think the role of science fiction is not at all to prophesy. I think it is to tell interesting, vivid, strange stories that at their best are dreamlike intense versions and visions of today.

We get our military people to come back and make recommendations to me and I will follow those recommendations. I will follow them very strongly.

Better a thousand times even a swiftly fading, ephemeral moment of life than the epoch-long unconsciousness of the stone.

Organizing free and fair elections is more important than the result itself

The difficulty with businessmen entering politics, after they've had a successful business career, is that they want to start at the top.

I am convinced that nothing but the hand of God can save us or help us as long as we have our present commander.

I personally love heights and roller coasters, I'm such an adrenaline junkie.