I take sanctuary in an honest mediocrity.

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.

Everything happens for a reason, we just don't get the reason with the thing

Okay... I get that... but why I!?

The strongest shoulders are not the well-built shoulders of a weight lifter who carries iron dumbbells, but they are of a mother’s weak shoulders which carry three children!

The problem in today's world is that people do not believe (lack trust) in goodness.

To follow, without halt, one aim: that's the secret of success.

I suppose I should be happy to be misread; better be that than some of the other things I have become.

The art of living easily as to money is to pitch your scale of living one degree below your means.

The question is whether NGOs that bring protection or aid or reparation therapies are furthering the possibility of self-determination or extending a form of managerial power and paternalism.

I let people say and write what they want.

Fortune loves to give bedroom slippers to people with wooden legs, and gloves to those with no hands.