The highest reach of a news-writer is an empty Reasoning on Policy, and vain Conjectures on the public Management.

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 may be a person I admire, but you can't be a person that everyone admires. You are not everyone's favourite, but you are someone's favourite whether you like them or not.

Cat, " said Peterkin, turning his head a little on one side, "I love you.

Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.

What you think determines your outlook on life. What you do determines your destiny.

I like writing letters and receiving letters. It's a shame that we've lost the art of letter-writing and saving correspondence. I mourn that.

Creativity is discontent translated into arts.

When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.

Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.

Ballet is number one, everything else is scheduled in the small windows when I'm not in the studio taking class, rehearsing, on stage or on tour.

Soul, if you want to learn secrets,
 your heart must forget about shame
 and dignity. You are God's lover,
 yet you worry what people are saying.