It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver. [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Time is an illusion, timing is an art.

Just as there is no substitute for original works of art, there is no substitute for the world of direct sensual experience.

No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.

No destiny attacks us from outside. But, within him, man bears his fate and there comes a moment when he knows himself vulnerable; and then, as in a vertigo, blunder upon blunder lures him.

The demographics are changing - and so what? Citizenship is a question of certain agreed-upon values and that is that. Do we believe that? I think at heart we do.

While vegans and meat-eaters disagree, we can all be united in our fear and hatred for the horror that is factory farming.

Not everybody who has a vision is a leader, but every leader has a vision.

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk.

The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever.

Sometimes words are just music themselves. Like 'Chicago' is a very musical sounding name.