Born merely for the purpose of digestion.

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.

I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better.

In the United States, the last recorded clitoridectomy for curing masturbation was performed in 1948--on a five year old girl.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

The monarchy is a labor intensive industry.

I wanted my photographs to be as powerful as the last thing a person sees or remembers before death.

I really, really love new work, and that's why, you know, I produced a concert series supporting new musicals and stuff like that. I hope to do more things like that.

The leaders should all relate to this principle: the governed must be as happy as possible.

I could never have imagined the films I've done and the people I've worked with when I was starting out; I certainly did not have a career path.

Skin bathed in summer sunset light is sultry and sublime. Every woman looks irresistible in its glow-relaxed and sensual.

No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him.