There are three great events in our lives: birth, life and death. Of birth we have no conscience; with death, we suffer; and, concerning life, we forget to live it.

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.

Everyone complains of his lack of memory but nobody of his want of judgement.

They pick a President and then for four years they pick on him.

You must make your choice whether to hold on to some thing which cannot save you, or let go, and fall into the hands of the Lord.

Americans are good at herding Bison. The end.

Dearly departed, scarcely lamented, deeply demented.

The way to turn our economy around is not by making rich people poorer, it's by making poor people richer.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

In the United States, I'm lucky; in Europe, I'm good.

I can see that one can never pay back Gilsa for the fear that she will give again.

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.