... whoever believes anything esteems that it is a work of charity to persuade another of it.

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.

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

A shadow is never created in darkness. It is born of light. We can be blind to it and blinded by it. Our shadow asks us to look at what we don’t want to see

Wish me everything that you can wish for the woman you dearly love, and I have as good as got it, John. I have better than got it, John.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from fear is a natural good.

One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Human beings are made up of flesh and blood, and a miracle fiber called courage.

The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

The human heart will never wrinkle

I am constantly playing younger. I have a baby face. I'm only five-foot-one, so I am used to playing younger. I love it.