How many valiant men we have seen to survive their own reputation!

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 only un-distractable, un-destructable, "thing", yet also the foundation of all pure creation, is "nothing.

I don't like to talk about my dreams. I like to make them happen. I prefer to talk about them when they're done.

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

I am 30, but there are things about me that are still 15.

As I do with most films, I try and find some music that you could use throughout, not just a sampling of lots of different artists.

Prayer might not change things, but it will change my perspective of things. Prayer might not change the past, but inevitably, it changes the present.

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want.

My message to women is: Women: We can do it. We are capable of doing almost anything, but we must learn we cannot do it all at once, we need to prioritize.

In a contest between me and a bulldog, you would say the bulldog is cuter.

If I work on a movie for two months, I should be able to dance on as many tables as I want to.