There can be no profit, if the outlay exceeds it. [Non enim potest quaestus consistere, si eum sumptus superat.]

As long as she is wise and good, a girl has sufficient dowry.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

I have taken a wife, I have sold my sovereignty for a dowry. [Lat., Uxorem accepi, dote imperium vendidi.]

You love a nothing when you love an ingrate.

Where there are friends there is wealth.

Spice a dish with love and it pleases every palate.

Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.

Good merchandise, even hidden, soon finds buyers.

Things we do not expect, happen more frequently than we wish.

There's no such thing, you know, as picking out the best woman: it's only a question of comparative badness, brother.

He had touched her. Bare skin to bare skin. She needed a bleach wipe. She would absolutely use a bleach wipe on her leg. Even if it ate her flesh off.

[Playing] the bad guys tend to be fascinating. Figuring out what makes them do the things they do is what interests me.

I always tell people, it took me 10 minutes and 35 years in the business. I get tired of playing it ["Lullaby of Birdland"], but not of collecting the royalties.

We inhabit ourselves without valuing ourselves, unable to see that here, now, this very moment is sacred; but once it’s gone – its value is incontestable.

I'm a mother of five, and raising five babies, little children, you have to make use of time in a very effective way. So, I think that may have trained me.

An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.

We made a film about the need for silence and withdrawal... and here we are at the epicentre of noise and excitement. Life is full of surprises.

you must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right.

A brilliant design will always benefit from the input of others.

Education is power. It is just like a light in complete darkness.