To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind to 't.

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.

Success becomes evident when the principles that bring about success are obeyed!

I will still be the girl with dreams, even the dreams come true

Fall in love with the habit of learning from the great successful people who came before you, so that you don't spend the rest of your life as a stranger to success.

There is no reason for you to ever stop walking with faith, because you are amazingly built to win regardless of how tough or rough your challenges are.

Poetry, to me, is a type of shamanistic chant capable of chasing away the darkness within us.

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Behind all their personal vanity, women themselves always have an impersonal contempt for woman.

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.

I think I'm a much better painter than an actor.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.