False modesty is the refinement of vanity. It is a lie.

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.

What you believe you can receive if you doubt it you will do without it.

The other one was filled with loud and obnoxious tourists. Always boasting on winning a sand castle competition and seeing who could get tanned first. What a whacky bunch of people.

Those who don't belong to any specific place can't, in fact, return anywhere.

Love and trust and justice, concern for the poor, that's being pushed to the margins, and you can see it.

Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.

I mean being a writer is like being a psychoanalyst, but you don't get any patients.

You feel better about yourself when you do something with yourself. You also feel more confident.

Whatever I'd say would be an understatement. I can only say my life was made much better by knowing him. He was one of the greatest people I've ever known, as a man, a friend, and a musician.

Every time a man puts a new idea across, he faces a dozen men who thought of it before he did. But they only thought of it.

Style is a way of talking about yourself.