However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

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.

You are the mark on my liquid heartwhere love begins with the beginning’s startYou are the desire of the ablaze fires the only truth from ten-thousand-liarsFrom the poem- A Letter to My Love

We deny the same love to others that we deny ourselves. We distort others in the same way we distort ourselves.

You think your smarter and braver than anyone?, well, , think again, you don't always win from the battle you're in.

Westward the course of empire takes its way.

Obviously the actors are incredible at being the audience surrogates in this crazy universe.

Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

The most beautiful act of faith is the one made in darkness, in sacrificing, and with extreme effort.

If you can turn off certain categories of law, do you not also have the power to turn off all categories of law?

Our forests are not for toilet paper. They are worth more standing than cut. That deserves to be defended, not only by native peoples but also by environmentalists.