Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.

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.

Life isn't about living the longest

Honest statesmanship is the wise employment of individual meannesses for the public good.

I think, domestically, one of the most interesting things that you would see under Presidenr Hillary Clinton is going to be the big energy infrastructure transition.

Doctinaires are the vultures of principle. They feed upon principle after it is dead.

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.

My life has changed. I'm not walking around any more wishing I wasn't me, which was the case at one time.

Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.

The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

I'm a designer, and for me, things are always evolving, and such evolution is necessary.

Al Qaeda has been placed on the run, but not destroyed.