~The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them ~

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.

Every suicide is a solution to a problem.

Nature has a language of its own, or maybe those who have lived long in solitude read in it their own unconscious inner feelings and mysterious foreknowledge.

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

As your body deteriorates, your natural talents start to go a little bit. You have to bring in physical working out, building, taking protein and doing extra stuff.

I collect books and I have some really, really old schoolbooks, and God is mentioned on every single page.

Fasting stirs a hunger in your spirit that goes deeper than the temporary you experience in your flesh.

You are either moving towards or away from success at any given time. What direction are you headed in?

I think one of the things when you're casting children is you're also casting their parents.

That's another thing about Noise. Everything that's ever happened to you just keeps right on talking, for ever and ever.