Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

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.

Graduate study is an intensive education.

Those who trade with heaven by prayer grow rich by quick returns.

Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.

Just watching Jack Lemmon made me want to get into this business.

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

The state of your heart dictates whether you harbor a grudge or give grace, seek self-pity or seek Christ, drink human misery or taste God's mercy.

Post-war filmmakers gave us the documentary, Rob Reiner gave us the mockumentary and Moore initiated a third genre, the crockumentary.

I do have an intense respect for pacifists, because I believe that ultimately, if we are to have a truly humanistic as well as libertarian society, violence will have to be banished on this planet.

I like my body so much better after I had kids. Is that a crazy thing to say? I'm more womanly. I feel sexier.

I just gave my cat a bath. Now how do I get all this fur off my tounge?