It is difficult to fly without wings.

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.

Travel is the treasure of time.

Only when we pay attention and notice small moments, do we make the connections that lead to a change in our perspective.

A talent for drama is not a talent for writing but is an ability to articulate human relationships.

People today expect too much from marriage. Getting married is really like taking on a big new job.

The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States.

I am always easy of belief when the creed pleases me.

I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.

I learned to park outside of Denny's because it's 24 hours. I made a deal at a 7-Eleven with a mailman so I could get my mail delivered there.