No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times.

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.

That is one good thing about this world…there are always sure to be more springs.

I’m sorry I broke you. It’s just that you’re so pretty, and I break pretty things.

I scream out the ropes of words that bound my tongue, and the heavens echo back...'I love you'.

Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards.

Over the next four years, I will continue to listen to different views and accept different suggestions.

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.

Keep your character several steps ahead of your talent

Man's idea of God, and a God's collusion, is an essential part of the equation to wage war.