The shortest and best way to make your fortune is to let people see clearly that it is in their interest to promote yours.

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.

Magic is the stunning art of surprising your audience, so that nothing else surprises them.

As water downs ships but upholds leaves, and as fires burn cities but refines gold, so do life's troubles propel the meek to greatnessand the proud to ruin.

To have a man who can flirt is next thing to indispensable to a leader of society.

Look poor, think rich.

No man can do me a truer kindness in this world than to pray for me.

I like playing against LeBron more than anybody else in the league. He brings out the best in me, and I bring out the best in him.

I want to think and at the same time that's the last thing in the world I want to do.

I have come to understand what being a public person means. I don't let things I can't do anything about bother me.

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad.

My honeymoon night was spent on the floor in the bathroom with my mother.