If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose, So the one is pretty equal to the other.

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.

As soon as someone dies, frenzied construction of the future (shifting furniture, etc.): futuromania.

It sounded so weird when people called shoyu "soy sauce." It made it sound like Tabasco or something instead of the clean and perfect thing that it was.

A gracefully effortless floating, flowing and flying are the essentials of the ballet’s image of man.

If there’s one thing I learned in Alanon, it’s that you got to face the music because it just grows louder when you ignore it.

The lie detector didn’t react to anything I said, but I wouldn’t dare smile.

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.

You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God's creative principle works in you.

The full truth of this odd matter is what the world has long been looking for and the public curiosity is sure to welcome.

There's a freeway running through the yard.