No wind serves him who addresses his voyage to no certain port.

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.

the abyss you stare into and that stares back at you is your reflection in the mirror - we all have it - that shadow self - that dark heart...

The child who attends school does not remember the abuse that happens at home or via the family

The more modest its intellectual ballast, the more exclusively it takes into consideration the emotions of the masses, the more effective [propaganda] will be.

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust.

I was right to back Muhammad Ali, but it caused me major enmity in many areas of this nation.

There are only two sorts of people in life you can trust - good Christians and good Communists.

There probably is a God. Many things are easier to explain if there is than if there isn't.

I think self-confidence doesn’t come so much from knowing you’re great as just knowing who you are.

Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden.

The book is not completely written until someone else has read it.