To forget someone means to think of him.

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.

The best thing she was, was her children.

Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life.

A writer, like a sheriff, is the embodiment of a group of people and without their support both are in a tight spot.

Your billion-dollar ideas don't show up in the middle of dramatic distraction. They show up when you have the business and personal discipline to make space for your creative mind to flourish.

Let me smile with the wise, and feed with the rich.

I felt great! I'm ready to roll tonight!

When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.

I don't care what critics and other people think.

Plants, like people, are social or anti-social: the good plant has to be able to live amicably with other plants in the border.

The challenge is to translate the song into something that works on the stage. It's pop music, but I try to keep it as loose as possible.