I would rather be old for a shorter time than be old before my time.

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.

I am old enough to know only too well my good and bad qualities, which were often one in the same.

And I won 'em back fair and square. So what are you going to do about it? Want to fight? Who wants the first bloody nose?

Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.

Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.

When I say or do something I do it, I don't give a damn what you think, I'm doing this for me.

Small blogs are starting up big campaigns.

I am clearly more popular than Reagan. I am in my third term. Where's Reagan? Gone after two! Defeated by George Bush and Michael Dukakis no less.

I would, however, question the implication that there is some novelty in this beyond modalities [of Mikhail Bakunin], which naturally change as institutions change and develop.

When the soul hears no other calls than those of the sweet chaos of daily good and evil.

Trav, if you cross us -- " "I know. You'll get me. I'll try not to pee all over myself in terror.