One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

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.

You are killing your life if you are not converting your time.

I don't do the gym and I don't diet. I'm vegetarian but I don't diet.

Nourish the world with your words, yo.

They said the black oil wouldn't come ashore. Well, it is ashore. It's here to stay and it's going to keep coming.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Both to the rich and poor, wine is the happy antidote for sorrow.

The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps.

The French were mystified about the Watergate scandal.

Disease [is] as one of our languages. Doctors understand what disease has to say about itself. It's up to the person with the disease to understand what the disease has to say to her.

My mind was clear and penetrating at the time, for it was midnight, the hour at which I am most brave and most free.