It is only when we have lost them that we fully appreciate our blessings.

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.

Which sort of shows why my body is an idiot, because forced narcolepsy is pretty much the worst defense ever.

Philip Larkin used to cheer himself up by looking in the mirror and saying the line from Rebecca, 'I am Mrs de Winter now!

I am very interested in bringing companies from everywhere to sell their products in China.

I had to wait 110 years to become famous. I wanted to enjoy it as long as possible.

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.

If as a child I had written a story, the best story that I could imagine, I would have written as indeed is happening to me.

He didn't love me because I'm valuable. Because He loved me, I became valuable.

it in every fair face, every fair sky, every fair flower.

The past is dead. Tomorrow will become whatever decision you make it. ~ Acheron.