I recover my property wherever I find it.

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.

That's the thing about pain. It demands to be felt...

It takes a strong person to stand up to his or her fate and overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of freedom and success, but I believe in you.

There are no rest stops on the road of life. Otherwise they'd be congested with traffic.

Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.

Collectors become obsessive and then addicted. You become addicted to art and you can't live without it.

That's what I am standing up for - Israel's future as a Jewish and democratic state living side-by-side in peace and security with its neighbors.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.

Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.