The laws of conscience, which we pretend to be derived from nature, proceed from Custom.

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.

How can one be so serious with the world when the world itself is so ridiculous?

Home they brought her warrior dead.

I used to ride motorbikes and drive cars like everything was a racetrack it was ridiculous. It wasn't because I thought it was cool it was just because I loved living on the edge. But I've chilled.

It's a bit of a weird thing to know that (my music) has translated to that many people.

If [Bush's] successors don't screw it up, within 10 years NASA will have us back to where we belong -- on other worlds.

Anytime odds get stacked up against me, I feel like it's in me to beat it

You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.

Eternal brightness is as scary as the eternal darkness.

Homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured through counselling.