I have a heart to love all the world; and like Alexander I wish there were yet other worlds, so I could carry even further my amorous conquests.

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also for what we do not do.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

Love is a great master. It teaches us to be what we never were.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

I want people to be sincere; a man of honor shouldn't speak a single word that doesn't come straight from his heart.

People spend most of their lives worrying about things that never happen.

I hate all men, the ones because they are mean and vicious, and the others for being complaisant with the vicious ones.

Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

A husband is a plaster that cures all the ills of girlhood.

In the marathon of life, there is no finish line.

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

You get to an age when you lose people close to you.

There is no love without sacrifices.

Success, for me, is a song that can deliver shivers.

I'm a huge poster collector.

Businesses are terrified. They have no idea what I'm going to do next.

Inscribed on the temple of Apollo

I get anxious. That lovely Jewish guilt that comes with ancestry.

I kind of stopped buying vinyl because I'm always on the road and you can never listen to it.