I have often seen people uncivil by too much civility, and tiresome in their courtesy.

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.

She was carrying two coffees and a donut bag, and right then and there, he fell in love."-Animal Magnetism

If you're writing about angry people, you use the language of anger. If you're writing about desperate people, you use the language of desperation.

The thing that obsesses me more than anything is waste - the waste of human intelligence and creativity.

We sometimes get all the information, but we refuse to get the message.

The source of my power and strength is God, and I know it, without a shadow of a doubt.

I never knew where babies came from until it happened to me.

Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.

It's always easy to blame others. You can spend your entire life blaming the world, but your successes or failures are entirely your own responsibility.

Instant obedience will teach you more about God than a lifetime of Bible discussions.

No evil is honorable: but death is honorable; therefore death is not evil.