It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

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.

We must seek the inner self, the power within.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest and but heal to wear That which disfigures it.

Advertising is 'an evil service'.

If your intent is that athletics and sports are tools or devices to reach higher levels of mind, then your workout sessions become meditation.

Agents are essential, because publishers will not read unsolicited manuscripts.

Under Lenin the Soviet Union was like a religious revival, under Stalin like a prison, under Khrushchev like a circus, and under Brezhnev like the U.S. Post Office.

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in charity.

There is a century-old saying, "The dollar votes more times than the man."

Great things happen when you have the courage to be yourself

Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray.