A foolish man in wealth and authority is like a weak-timbered house with a too-ponderous roof.

It is better to be well deserving without praise than to live by the air of undeserved commendation.

Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he that with content enjoys a competence.

When the scale of sensuality bears down that of reason, the baseness of our nature conducts us to most preposterous conclusions.

Harsh reproof is like a violent storm, soon washed down the channel; but friendly admonitions, like a small shower, pierce deep, and bring forth better reformation.

There are no riches like the sweetness of content, nor poverty comparable to the want of patience.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

There is no such thing as chance. Everything occurs as a result of cause and effect

I can’t sleep without you by my side.

Elias and Laia are each other’s countermelodies. I am just a dissonant note.

Winston has written four volumes about himself and called it 'World Crisis'.

There is always a best way of doing everything if it be only to boil an egg. Manners are the happy ways of doing things.

Never get married in the morning - you never know who you might meet that night.

Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.

Can't reinvent the wheel. But you can put your own spin on it.

If people disobey, don't ask what is wrong with them, ask what's wrong with their leaders.

I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting until the end of my days.