"You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle."

"All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it."

"He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts."

"The tapestry of existence shows us that gratitude turns what we have into enough."

"God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another."

"But protagonists are protagonists and heroes are heroes."

"To enjoy being famous, you need to have a screw loose."

"You don't have to be naked to be sexy."