As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

The sweetest of all sounds is that of the voice of the woman we love.

No road is to long for him who advances slowly and does not hurry and no attainment is beyond his reach who equips himself with patience to achieve it

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

A vain man finds it wise to speak good or ill of himself; a modest man does not talk of himself.

Courtly manners are contagious; they are caught at Versailles.

We are more sociable, and get on better with people by the heart than the intellect.

A prince wants only the pleasure of private life to complete his happiness.

There is as much trickery required to grow rich by a stupid book as there is folly in buying it.

Out of difficulties grow miracles.

Times will change. Peace changes even the worst of killers, " Ruth said."Into what?" Ezekiel asked.

No matter how we choose to live, we both die at the end.

Some want, to be exempt. They do not want to excel, they do not want to exert. They want to be considered excellent, for desiring to be held exempt, from all accountability.

The last generation's worst fears became the next one's B-grade entertainment.

The cardinal rule for hosting the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants is to expect the unexpected.

Music is an experience, not a science.

Erich Mendelsohn's drawings are expressive and beautiful. If he'd had the computers we have now, everything I've done he would have done before me. I would have had to figure out something else.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

I don't have any regrets. If I could have talked to my 19- or 20-year-old self, I would have said, 'You're going to be fine. It ain't that serious!'

We all have ambivalent feelings toward work ... We try to avoid it, and yet we seem to require it for our emotional well-being.