Tyranny has no need of arts or sciences, for its policy, which is very shallow and without any refinement, only consists in shedding blood.

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 sacred soul is full of God's spirit.

The greatest and most powerful revolutions often start very quietly, hidden in the shadows. Remember that.

When people unfortunately use religion to facilitate their envy, arrogance and hate, communalism surfaces.

Anyone who knows or cares anything about real country music will agree that George Jones is the voice of it.

Owning the intellectual property is like owning land: You need to keep investing in it again and again to get a payoff; you can't simply sit back and collect rent.

When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.

I don't need the definition of society, I'll just do my little thing in my corner and I'll be satisfied. I think that's important nowadays.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

Tis so much to be a king, that he only is so by being so.