Mutual content is like a river, which must have its banks on either side.

The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.

Would you like to be a brilliant conversationalist? Just give your natural enthusiasm free reign and say whatever comes into your head. Your rashness will be taken for extraordinary courage.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

Pride and conceit were the original sins of man.

Evil tongues never want a whet.

Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.

It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.

On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de sa mémoire (One may say that his wit shines by the help of his memory).

A flatterer can risk everything with great personages.

You may not attain the highest height with one leap but my dear you will reach your destination.

I appreciate that something I've done has found a safe place to land.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

Rather than looking for another religion, look for the values that are in every religion.

In heaven there is no beer. That's why we drink ours here.

You pigeon hole yourself by the title you give yourself.

When you are young you don't always realise how full of doubts everybody is.

[Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns] is not just unique to books, but films and music.

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.