Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

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.

Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.

The only path wide for us all is love.

Innovation in an existing company is not just the sum of great technology, key acquisitions, or smart people. Corporate innovation needs a culture that matches and supports it.

I had a huge Indian wedding, and I did it for my wife, and I did it for my white friends.

I love just about every aspect of the filmmaking except acting. I would never be able to do that, but the rest I really enjoy.

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

Do not cling to anything, to any idea; because clinging is the bondage, even to the idea of enlightenment.

With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.