Praise is always pleasing, let it come from whom, or upon what account it will.

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.

Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done.

Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world, I drank to escapemyself

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City.

Too quick a sense of constant infelicity.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

We can all be more consistently involved in missionary work by replacing our fear with real faith.

I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me. ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.

Technology is incredibly powerful. And in many ways, the sky is the limit in terms of what you can actually accomplish with the right science and the right technology.

Social media gives one a family to share ones life with.