Miracles arise from our ignorance of nature, not from nature itself.

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.

Thanks be to God that, even though at times we may “forget” Him, He never forgets us.

Job tip: If you were the employer, what kind of person would you most desire as an employee? Be that person.

I like perfume and flowers.

That on a romantic level, if you feel it about somebody and it's pure, it means that they do too.

The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible

Men who have embraced one idea can live only by and for that idea. Beyond it, they have nothing but their memories.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side. I start off kind of in love and then I leave love and I'm single.

The baptism of the spirit will do for you, what a phone booth did for Clark Kent, it will change you into a different being.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.