Widows, like ripe fruit, drop easily from their perch.

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.

I have seen the transformative effect that education has in the lives of young women and their communities.

My religion is humanitarianism, which is the basis of every religion in the world.

I can be accused of trying to be commercial sometimes.

[The] operation of the wisest laws is imperfect and precarious. They seldom inspire virtue, they cannot always restrain vice.

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.

Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily.

I've been a social gospel-er and a person who sees politics as a central dynamic to the encoding of religious rhetoric.

Before the tongue can speak, it must have lost the power to wound.

My mother, who hates thunderstorms, Holds up each summer day and shakes It out suspiciously, lest swarms Of grape-dark clouds are lurking there.

The right decisions come from the right focus. You’ll succeed if your focus is on the mission, not the money.