The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

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.

Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…

I've never made a movie to make money. I've never made a painting to make money.

There's overwhelming evidence that there was a connection between Al Qaeda and the Iraqi government.

If I had to put a percentage on it - I'd say not likely.

When you reminisce aren't the times that someone's forcing you to reminisce. You reminisce other times in your life.

It's a really unique acting opportunity to play two roles who are not only interacting with each other, but vastly different.

Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

I'll spend my mornings at the sunshine café.

There will be losing years; but if the art of making money is not to lose it, then there should not be substantial losses.

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.