Let us permit nature to have her way. She understands her business better than we do.

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.

When no one cares about you, just look at yourself in mirror

What is extraordinary about contemporary art is the energy - it has our energy. New energy. Pieces hundreds of years old are beautiful from an aesthetic point of view, but without our modern energy.

Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law.

I don't possess a lot of self-confidence. I'm an actor so I simply act confident every time I hit the stage.

Catharsis returns us to the purpose for which were originally intended - to be called by God to do good - and thus ultimately returns us to ourselves.

I can honestly say that I understand women very well. If you understand yourself, you understand women, because, in the end, all women are the same.

When a man of genius appears in the world, it is immediately recognized by the fact that all the blockheads join forces against him.

The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents.

For the private sector to flourish, special privilege must give way to equal opportunity and equal risk for all.

Berthe Morisot was a painter full of eighteenth-century delicacy and grace; in a word, the last elegant and 'feminine' artists since Fragonard.