Your wealth is where your friends are.

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.

Now, evolution is the substance of fossils hoped for, the evidence of links not seen.

[The writer] can easily foresee his fate ... in an age when an author who wants to have readers must take care to write in such a way that the book can easily be perused during an afternoon nap ....

Happiness comes in many forms. Whether through a passion for something or someone, it makes no difference. The results are the same: you live.

Out of every difficulty Omnipotence can bring us, only let us in childlike confidence cast our burden upon the Lord.

The 9th grade was the best three years of my life. I was benching 85 lbs, drug free!

We should fund the armies of compassion, we should not discriminate against faith-based programs.

I don’t like to talk to people, because I can’t express myself satisfactorily. I don’t say the things I mean.

My work is really simple, actually. I'm just playing with forms of changing.

In order to be a good soldier it is necessary to know how to dance.

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.