Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

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.

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.

Our age not only does not have a very sharp eye for the almost imperceptible intrusions of grace, it no longer has much feeling for the nature of the violences which precede and follow them.

This will be the way I’ll be remembering you, Kel, ” he whispered softly into her ear, “in this beautiful place, where all that I’m thinking about it how much I want you.

Any entrepreneur with the title 'CEO' on his biz card has got a hell of a lot to learn yet.

Sports is like a war without the killing.

He was bolder in the daylight-most men are.

I must not quarrel with the will Of highest dispensation, which herein, Haply had ends above my reach to know.

As chairman of the DNC, [Keith ] Ellison says he would replicate that kind of turnout on a national scale. But we spoke yesterday about some history that could stand in the way.

All that God asks you most pressingly is to go out of yourself … and let God be God in you

Im the glue that holds everything together.