A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

Be brave. Things will find their shape.

Revenge is good. It's what separates us from the animals and the hippies.

Determination, with an optimistic attitude is the key to success.

The pirate he will sink you with a kiss, he'll steal your heart and sail away.

I don't think I ever feel sexy. I don't think that's for me to decide, if I'm sexy or not.

I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?

You can write about anything for children as long as you've got humour.

The baby boomers owe a big debt of gratitude to the parents and grandparents - who we haven't given enough credit to anyway - for giving us another generation.

I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.

I've been in a gym probably nine days of my life.