There is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury...but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

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.

Listen closely. Even the trees exhale sweet love songs that roll off their boughs and echo out to all of creation. Love is always in the air.

I congratulate you on your success stealing the painting.

Get close to only those who renew our spirit and sense of purpose in life.

I am that person in front of whom the most difficult conditions of life are lost.

you do your own time in prison. You don't do anyone else's time for them.

Books that distribute things... with as daring a freedom as we use in dreams, put us on our feet again.

nothing is so binding as pity.

In all the characters I play, not matter how, it's like as if there is something within me that's released. I also show my best ability and put in my best efforts.

I'm so old I can remember when the Dead Sea was only sick.

Greatness is in not what you do but how you are an instrument in the hands of God.