Whatever disgrace we may have deserved it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

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.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

In a balanced viewpoint that includes both masculine and feminine perspective, healing is seen not as a technique, but as a process.

how lovers alter in the glance of each other, that space where their moods are accepted and their surrender is never taken advantage of.

Don’t be afraid of an endless road, but the road with an end!

The one thing I learned the most about acting is it takes a tremendous amount of courage to go there and stand still. It takes courage and guts to step out of your mind frame and depict something.

Call me a sinner, Mock me maliciously: I was your insomnia, I was your grief.

I think when you take forever off the table, it does something really interesting to what you think is important.

I'm pretty private about my neuroses. You're not neurotic if you talk to yourself - everyone does - you're only neurotic if you hear an answer.

Don't worry about anything. Go out and have a good time.