Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

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.

Last night he made it very clear that he wants me.And, god help me, I want him too.

I'm like a circus standing on two legs.

Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

I support renewable energy.

The greatest happiness is family happiness.

Raymond Chandler managed to write about L.A. his whole career. Should I keep going writing about New York? Is that what I should be doing? Songwriting doesn't work that way.

I'm kind of a homebody, and the rhythm of my thinking and work is starting at home, going out and coming back, bringing back news, bringing back information, applying it.

The only freedom supposed to be left to the masses is that of grazing on the ration of simulacra the system distributes to each individual.

The essential challenge is to transform the isolation and self-interest within our communities into connectedness and caring for the whole.

Solving specific problems is what drives me. I am not interested in having a career. I never have been.