A show of a certain amount of honesty is in any profession or business the surest way of growing rich.

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 looked at him for an age, and he read nothing short of love on her face. It warmed him to the core he'd thought dead, and scared the crap out of him.

Some people worry that artificial intelligence will make us feel inferior, but then, anybody in his right mind should have an inferiority complex every time he looks at a flower.

And this is the final meaning of work: the extension of human consciousness. The lesser meaning of work is the achieving of self-preservation.

Love means never having to say you're sorry. Marriage means apologizing when you know you're right.

We learned that a former prisoner of war had more to teach us about what it takes to find a path to greatness than most books on corporate strategy.

If you pretend everything's fine long enough, everything eventually becomes fine.

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

Beauty is not a concept. It is the animal joy of the mind.

I like to have nice conversations with a man that teach me something, make me mad, make me curious. Then I find him attractive.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden have been working hard to help middle-class families make it in America.