Your tittle-tattlers, and those who listen to slander, by my good will should all be hanged - the former by their tongues, the latter by the ears.

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.

Living like this is a full-time business.

All that glitters is not hovery.

We must get into the picture business. This is a new industry and a gold mine. it looks like another telephone industry.

I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.

My impression is that American policy speaks not of antagonism but rather partnership.

We're like a gardener with a hose and our attention is water - we can water flowers or we can water weeds.

I try to tell the kids, Im not trying to run away from where I came from.

Hard times fall upon everybody. Whatever it is, we're going to get out of it.

Law Number XIV: After the year 2015, there will be no airplane crashes. There will be no takeoffs either, because electronics will occupy 100 percent of every airplane's weight.

I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life.