If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.

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.

It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.

Choice is an illusion, what we eat is again illusion, nothing matters when it's illusion... so how did you survive???

Illness isn't the only thing that spoils the appetite.

I wish we could have acted quicker on Detroit or other failing schools.

There is rough work to be done, and rough men must do it; there is gentle work to be done, and gentlemen must do it.

The only way to break the chains of fear and doubt is to know in your heart that God loves you-no matter what.

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!

Our courage comes from the courage of others.

Management is formal authority given from above. Leadership is moral authority given from below and all around.

I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.