Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.

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.

People find love in life

Fear tells you what can’t be done

Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

I'm hooked on my baby's love, there ain't nothing in the jug this strong.

The last film is always the most important.

I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.

You can only do so many serious dramas in a row before you want to break. You want a change.

I am a guy who talks about bacon and escalators. Stand-up comedy is very much a conversation. It's very personal, stylistically.

Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing

We must escape and help others to escape the two readymade formulas of the pure sexual encounter and the lovers' fusion of identities.