Once conform, once do what others do because they do it, and a kind of lethargy steals over all the finer senses of the soul.

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 love we give away is the only one we keep.

I don't think I've ever really had a home before, not until I met you.

Arguing with reality it like trying to teach a cat to bark.

Don't think of it as wrinkles. Think of ot as relaxed-fit skin.

There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone is human.

Profit is a reward for satisfying the desire of someone else.

My life is very complicated. I have a lot of things going on. I am juggling a lot of responsibilities. There is so much going on that it is astounding, it really is.

I felt film is art and there are people that constructed that art - and that made me want to be a filmmaker.

Principles are the basis for developing a vision and value system for all.

We are all captives of the picture in our head - our belief that the world we have experienced is the world that really exists.