Piety with some people, but especially with women, is either a passion, or an infirmity of age, or a fashion which must be followed.

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.

The most effective form of creation is an act of cooperation, not force.

I want people to be drawn into the space of the work. And a lot of people are like me in that they have relatively short attention spans. So I shoot for the window of opportunity.

I've always been an optimistic guy, to tell you the truth.

He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis".

Baby, when you were young and your heart was an open book, you used to say live and let live. You know you did, you know you did, you know you did.

Nearly every lawsuit is an insult to the intelligence of both plaintiff and defendant.

Music is the soundtrack to my life.

I had started to wonder if maybe my life wouldn't always hold so much pain if I could just find the courage to let it go.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.