We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death.

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.

Poverty treads close upon the heels of great and unexpected wealth.

It's coexistence or no existence.

The reason producers make stupid movies is because there are stupid people who will pay to see them.

Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.

The important thing about any book is that you have to have a good story and that it has to be exciting. Then it's nice to add other levels underneath that people can pick up on.

What do I miss about the UK? Sadly, almost nothing. Maybe the midnight sun, in June in the north. That's all.

Being dubbed as a hunk sort of annoys me. It gives me a yucky feeling.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

I've been through so much of my own self-search that I'm not as consumed with who I am as I used to be.

Real happiness is not dependent on external things.