The best way to get on in the world is to make people believe it's to their advantage to help you.

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.

Don't panic. Are you sitting? You probably don't need to sit. Well, possibly. At least lean on something.

Happiness is a great big hug, hugging us from the inside. allow yourself to feel its warmth and grace

Maybe some women aren't meant to be tamed. Maybe they just need to run free until they find someone just as wild to run with them. -Carrie Bradshaw

Prayer begins by talking to God, but it ends by listening to Him. In the face of Absolute Truth, silence is the soul's language.

I got lucky because I never gave up the search. Are you quitting too soon? Or are you willing to pursue luck with a vengeance?

We should be wrong to demand that a critic must stay on the point all the time; it is enough if he remains in orbit around it.

I loved school. I studied like crazy. I was a Class A nerd.

The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.

Penn & Teller don't know jack about global warming.

There are so many Jamaican people here in London, it's going to be like being at home for me.