Mediocre minds usually dismiss anything which reaches beyond their own understanding.

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.

Against ignorance, God Himself is helpless.

Security is a strange thing, a myth that the brain allows in exchange for a brief moment of peace.

Stars do not shine on their friends alone.

When people are bored, it is primarily with their own selves that they are bored.

Larry the Cable Guy has signed a deal with Cracker Barrel. Not the store. He signed a deal with a barrel full of angry rednecks.

Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come.

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.

When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.