For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

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.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

The organizers and perpetuators of segregation are as much the enemy of America as any foreign invader.

The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

It doesn't feel different being here (at the All-Star Game) I feel like I'm on an All-Star team everyday.

When we're dancing it almost feels the same, I've got to stop myself from whispering your name.

I gave (my drivers) three things: a sense of optimism, a creative environment, and the ultimate motivator-competition. By competing with each other in-house, we wound up beating our rivals.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I've never had any problems with women. Having been one of the world's greatest womanizers they've probably had more problems with me.

In jazz, as in poetry, there is always that play between what’s regular and what’s wild. That has always appealed to me.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.