The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

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.

What you couldn't see and only imagined was always scarier than what was real.

Faith is not being sure where you're going but going anyway.

Princeton is a sublime undergraduate university. It has a good architecture school.

People sometimes say, "What is your dream role?" I don't really have a dream role. I'll know it when I see it.

People ask me why I don't tweet. Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

His ears were often the first thing to catch my tears.

When results aren't good the manager gets the sack, that's the game.

Organizer is kind of a grand term for what I was doing.

...he seemed to approach the grave as an hyperbolic curve approaches a line, less directly as he got nearer, till it was doubtful if he would ever reach it at all.

Language can never 'pin down' slavery, genocide, war. Nor should it yearn for the arrogance to be able to do so. Its force, its felicity, is in its reach toward the ineffable.