Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.

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.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

It is easy to say the word forgiveness but the challenge is to live the word forgiveness.

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

Good things when short are twice as good.

The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.

I've been on the stage my entire life as an actor.

My motto is 'Love and let love' - with the one stipulation that people who love in glass-houses should breathe on the windows.

A 'multicultural society' is a logical and physical impossibility.

If every tiny flower wanted to be a rose, spring would lose its loveliness.