How happy the station which every moment furnishes opportunities of doing good to thousands! How dangerous that which every moment exposes to the injuring of millions!

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.

My brain was so noisy and opinionated that it drowned out my heart.

Baathism in Iraq equals Nazism in Germany.

Self awareness allows you to self-correct.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Good and solid analysis and a formal way of looking at a problem [are the core ingredients of good decisions].

Welfare is not a retirement plan.

The basic assumption of tantra is that God not only exists in the superconscious, God also exists in the lowest forms of existence.

The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's Sunny meditations.

All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.

Writing songs is like capturing birds without killing them. Sometimes you end up with nothing but a mouthful of feathers.