When a secret is revealed, it is the fault of the man who confided it.

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.

She has to live, Eliott. I owe her a lifetime of apologies.”“Sometimes I think that’s all we owe our parents.

But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream.

I love love songs. But I love pop music as well: Girls Aloud, Kylie, the Spice Girls, East 17, Mika.

[On Richard M. Nixon:] Americans began with a president who couldn't tell a lie and now they have one who can't tell the truth.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

Egoist is someone who cares more for himself than me.

I was in church a little bit as a very young kid, but, as they say in the South, 'it didnt take.' None of it took with me.

Many men would have arrived at wisdom had they not believed themselves to have arrived there already.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.