O tyrant love, when held by you, We may to prudence bid adieu. [Fr., Amour! Amour! quand tu nous tiens On peut bien dire, Adieu, prudence.]

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.

Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

All the brains in the world are powerless against the sort of stupidity that is in fashion.

Nothing is more dangerous than a friend without discretion; even a prudent enemy is preferable.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

In parenting, as in judging, the days are long, but the years are short.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.

You teach me baseball and I'll teach you relativity...No we must not. You will learn about relativity faster than I learn baseball.

Let's be diligent in giving, careful in our living, and faithful in our praying.

It is an awful lot harder, Tony told me, to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.

At least in Europe, we consider the right to privacy a fundamental right and it is a very serious matter.

Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.

Oh you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you

The life of a winner is the result of an unswerving commitment to a never-ending process of self-completion .

Only someone who had cried a great deal understands why someone else wants to stop the tears.