Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property.

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.

[Faith] was something other than an intellectual exercise. There were no words, no lofty concepts, that could take away the pain. Faith was living with the pain.

All I know about humor is that I don't know anything about it.

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

In the end, I think musicians know that getting up in the morning and making music you love doesn't necessarily mean that you deserve billions of dollars or worship from anybody.

I design for the woman I wanted to be, the woman I used to be and to some degree, the woman I'm still a little piece of.

One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.

I may not be able to pull on the smallest of holds, but those I can pull on I can pull on all day long.

I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

The historian's one task is to tell the thing as it happened.

I’m not sure which is worse: intense feeling, or the absence of it.