Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

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.

Feminism is the radical notion that women are human beings.

Human beings, to me, are rather like electrical appliances that need to be charged regularly, and prayer is a way of plugging into that charge.

Come from forever, and you will go everywhere.

What we feed our mind becomes the material with which we build our life.

Most of my school friends and even a few of my teachers called me Duck.

Parents don't know their children at all. No one knows anyone, in fact.

Rise of capitalism was responsible for the subordination of Woman

failure in the theater is more public, more brilliant, more unreal than in any other field.

The quiet mind is richer than a crown....Such sweet content, such minds, such sleep, such bliss beggars enjoy when princes oft do miss.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.