It is not necessity but abundance which produces greed.

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.

To hate someone just because he doesn't presume like you is big blunder.

And each ripple builds and builds into the tidal wave of anarchy to which we are now doomed.

The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

I love being directed. I always find it helpful to have someone else's brain in the mix and not just have to rely on myself.

Anyone can be a fisherman in May.

Everybody should write a book whether you get it published or not because the experience of sort of taking it all and throwing it down on paper is unbelievably cathartic.

But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give.

Best advice is this: Work hard. Nothing is given to you.

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems

I care not so much what I am to others as what I am to myself. I will be rich by myself, and not by borrowing.