Great men's honor ought always to be measured by the methods they made use of in attaining it.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

A work can become modern only if it is first postmodern. Postmodernism thus understood is not modernism at its end but in the nascent state, and this state is constant.

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand imitations.

Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so.

Marriage is the only war in which you sleep with the enemy.

Most people know no other way of judging men's worth but by the vogue they are in, or the fortunes they have met with.

There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage, and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage.

Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.

A politician is a man in his natural state

The dark uneasy world of family life - where the greatest can fail and the humblest succeed.

Instead of the mahi mahi, may I just get the one mahi because I’m not that hungry.

It's not as easy as that... it's disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.

As a person thinks, feels, and believes, so is the condition of his or her mind, body, and circumstances.

Thoughts are odd misfires.

Then on! then on! where duty leads,My course be onward still.

It's easy to break things. Much, much easier, it seems, than building them.

Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having them bear fruit, and even this is done gradually.