Long life, and short, are by death made all one; for there is no long, nor short, to things that are no more.

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 prefer for 'my world' to have the highest certification of being a faithful representation of the exterior world.

Honesty makes stories real and characters memorable. From there, taking them to where they need to go will be all the development they need.

…the world was a vale of tears—it always had been.

Fears drive us backwards.

If we were logical the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings and we have faith and we have hope.

My take is that the optimal approach to food, for health and ethical reasons, may be vegetarianism.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

Actors love to act all those death scenes.

But you can travel on for ten thousand miles, and still stay where you are.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.