The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others.

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.

While my college had done an excellent job recruiting me, I had no road map for what I was supposed to do once I made it to campus.

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is never destroyed.

In the rare air of that altitude he forgot he was he. One way or another that was the aim of life. Shamans flew outside the self in ecstasy. Other people found love, or causes.

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

jealousy is indeed the shadow of love.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

The only selfish life is a timid one.

Atmosphere in a painting is nine-tenths fear.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

The single most powerful tool for winning a negotiation is the ability to get up and walk away from the table without a deal