The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.

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.

Don't waste your time complaining, use your energy to create a solution. Even a 10% resolution is progress.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.

Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

I just like being around people, especially nice people, and there are a lot of nice girls on tour.

I've never written anything that wasn't somewhat of a collaboration. I don't know how people do it on their own.

The country is in some trouble, because the media, which is supposed to provide a check and balance on government, has decided to stop doing that as a collective entity.

Golf is an exercise in Scottish pointlessness for people who are no longer able to throw telephone poles at each other.

After all, the nation is not just an entity. It's a story. It's a story of what's salient, what brought us together, what we are willing to live and die for.