It is too much for a husband to have a wife who is a coquette and sanctimonious as well; she should select only one of those qualities.

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.

It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about it.

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

To genius life never grows commonplace.

Perhaps if England and Scotland together had one team we could at least beat the Germans.

I didn't write poems for a number of years after graduate school because the criticisms of other students in the workshops wouldn't quiet down in my mind when I tried to work.

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

To sway an audience, you must watch them as you speak.

How do you see those tree?... They are yellow. Well then put down yellow. And that shadow is rather blue. So render it with pure ultramarine. Those red leaves? Use vermillion.

My garden will never make me famous, I'm a horticultural ignoramus.

There is a fallible quality even in the greatest ones,everyone fails once in a while, be it Shah Rukh Khan or Ronaldhino