'He means well' is useless unless he does well.

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

Men cannot be nice and kind to a woman and have no affection for them.

Have you ever met someone for the first time, but in your heart you feel as if you’ve met them before?

But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave pictures that persist the good are ever too luke-warm.

When we become captive to the Word of God, then we discover true freedom.

And I loved Frank Lloyd Wright. I think he was the greatest man I have ever met in my life.

In the end, I feel that one has to have a bit of neurosis to go on being an artist. A balanced human seldom produces art. It's that imbalance which impels us... The artist lives with anxiety.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound.

I really like using my Samsung (005930:KS) tablet. I previously used the Motorola Xoom for a while and liked that.

In spite of all that happened at Hamburg, bombing proved a relatively humane method.