It is no hard matter to get children; but after they are born, then begins the trouble, solicitude, and care rightly to train, principle, and bring them up.

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 knew that my husband was a song that I had forgotten the words to and I was a fuzzy photograph of someone he used to love.

The light in your soul can illuminate any darkness.

I don't know how to not become every person I walk by.

In London, people can be so... well, it's not even a case of people being unkind or unfriendly. You just don't make any contact in London. You go from A to B with your eyes on the pavement.

If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.

Anytime you bring a really powerful new technology to market there are multiple implications. You start changing the relative position of countries.

Some plague the people with too long sermons; for the faculty of listening is a tender thing, and soon becomes weary and satiated.

I lived in the first century of world wars. Most mornings I would be more or less insane.

The book of Nature is that which the physician must read; and to do so he must walk over the leaves.

The noblest service comes from nameless hands; and the best servant does his work unseen.