The finest and most beautiful ideas on morals and manners have been swept away before our times, and nothing is left for us but to glean after the ancients and the ablest amongst the moderns.

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.

Before prayer changes others, it first changes us.

Hopefully I'll continue to have the success I've had.

I don't like to fly. What's it called when the plane shakes? Turbulence, takeoffs... I grab my chair, close my eyes, count to 30, breathe, and pray.

It sucks being fat, you know.

He would like to start from scratch. Where is scratch?

Really, I do not know whether my paintings are surrealist or not, but I do know that they are the frankest expression of myself.

Maybe, I want her to do anything she wants, but I hope her interest in singing stays high.

For we were little Christian children and early learned the value of forbidden fruit.

Sentiment never was and never can be a guarantee for justice.

The heart knows today what the mind will learn tomorrow.