Lawyers and physicians are an ill provision for any country.

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.

... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.

Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you’re not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.

You yourself are a letter, read and known by all men.

Having no intercourse with anyone, she lived in the torpid state of a sleep-walker.

There are, in fact, a cognitive itchand a divination using the human formwhile being alive, when life is not alive in its own senseexcept for the eternity.

Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable.

Man is a tool-making animal

Faith comes by hearing all the Word, not just preferred sections.

I've struggled a lot for what I have today.

Once you get to earth orbit, you're halfway to anywhere in the solar system.