Those who can bear all can dare all.

Lazy people are always anxious to be doing something.

We are so presumptuous that we think we can separate our personal interest from that of humanity, and slander mankind without compromising ourselves.

The shortness of life cannot dissuade us from its pleasures, nor console us for its pains.

The young suffer less from their own errors than from the cautiousness of the old.

You are not born for fame if you don't know the value of time.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

The art of pleasing is the art of deception.

Action makes more fortune than caution.

Courage is adversity's lamp.

Most people grow old within a small circle of ideas, which they have not discovered for themselves. There are perhaps less wrong-minded people than thoughtless.

Relationships should be like flat pack come with easy to follow instructions so that you knew which bits fitted where

The key to happiness was achievable dreams.

I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement [Libertarians] in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.

Never give advice unless asked.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

I like being able to provide consistent and frequent literary choices for my fans.

A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

I said hello unnoticed, you said good-bye too soon.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

You've never in your life seen a horse run like this! He's all power - all beauty.