If you squander on a holyday, you will want on a workday unless you have been sparing.

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.

I have been absolutely terrified every moment of my life and I have never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

The emotion was the most important thing.

The grasping mind holds on to everything – beliefs, people, possessions – so that it seems as though there is hardly any room to breathe.

I'm the one driving the strategy and I'm an artist. What I've convinced the company to do is to just be totally open about exactly how everything works.

All that stuff with the tabloids is a kind of luxury tax I pay for all the good things I do in my life.

What, at peace with the Father and at war with the children? It cannot be.

Every message, regardless of form or content, is an expression of a need.

Hard roads are not opened by themselves; they are opened by some brave people!

You learn from your mistakes.

[The] act of gratitude is nowadays is probably more often neglected than overdone.