There is a pleasure in meeting the glance of a person whom we have lately laid under some obligations.

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.

What a blessed thing it is that nature when she invented manufactured and patented her audiors contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

We go to poetry, we go to literature in general, to be forwarded within ourselves.

I have some unfinished business to complete at the University of Oregon.

Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb!

Give me a condor's quill! Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand!

At 17, the first time I saw a dead body, I froze. By 31 it was a natural occurrence for me, and no group of people should live like that.

There are moments where we don't understand the world we live in - where we don't understand our own lives, our sadness or our joy.

[On old age:] You wake up one morning and you got it.

Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.