It is a fool's privilege to laugh at an intelligent man.

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.

Literature offered a safe circumscribed outlet for sadness.

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match.

You have to discover when you're inadequate to be funny and you don't know you're inadequate when you're a kid.

I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.

From the biography of Freud, by Irving Stone, said by Freud's fiance after he teased her for being sweet, "Beware of truly sweet people. They have will of iron.

DRS is like giving Picasso Photoshop.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

A success that has outlived its usefulness may, in the end, be more damaging than failure.

Let the natural flow of the universe, course through your being, and harmonize your soul.