False glory is the rock of vanity; it seduces men to affect esteem by things which they indeed possess, but which are frivolous, and which for a man to value himself on would be a scandalous error.

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.

My son will wear the title well, the Duke thought, and realized with a sudden chill that this was another death thought.

Oh. Sure. It makes perfect sense. Zane is a wolf because his father is an eagle.

Don't wait to have a baby! Do it now!

I hope this is the lesson we women really commit to memory - we learned that it doesn't work to try be someone other than who you really are.

The New York gallery scene being as incredibly overpopulated and overmoneyed as it is, deep conflicts and contradictions aren't hard to find.

They had to ask spain I think, they've had to say to Spain, can you lend us some stuff for the roads, and it's Gordon Brown phoning up going 'pass the salt'

Writing is not, alas, like riding a bicycle: it does not get easier with practice.

I am suspicious of the idea of a new paradigm, to use that word, an entirely new structure of the economy.

Dive into your heart center. Sit in the silence. Desire self-realization with all your heart, with all your mind, and all your soul. Everything will take care of itself.

The public gets not one penny from them in return for those airwaves.