It is easier to begin well than to finish well.

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.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Whosoever insists on winning must play at trivial games

Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.

He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now.

Exercise is a dirty word. Every time I hear it I wash my mouth out with chocolate.

The church doesn't seek apologies and we don't give them.

Someone once told me that the most dynamic actors are people who have stories. People who have lived life. People with experiences.

I set our house on fire when I was a little child playing with lighters. Boy, did I burn the place down!

When I start, my first idea for a building is with the material. I believe architecture is about that. It's not about paper, it's not about forms. It's about space and material.

There is something in meanness which excites a species of resentment that never subsides, and something in cruelty which stirs up the heart to the highest agony of human hatred.