Gold makes the ugly beautiful.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

We are born and then we die. And in between lies only this strange darkness that we can’t break.

Almost all heroism is designed to make you inert by placing it in a context that you can't possibly act on.

By the time your training is complete, you'll come on command my defiant queen.

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.

A welfare state, properly conceived, can be an integral part of a conservative society.

One way or another, a life without conscience is a failed life.

Millions for defense but not a cent for tribute.

Someone who does not see a pane of glass is not aware of not seeing it.

After the phone call from The New Yorker, I walked more than a mile to church to thank God. But then I told God I would talk to Him another time and darted home.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.