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.

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.

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.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

Appreciation can make a day - even change a life. Your willingness to put it into words is all that is necessary. -- Margaret Cousins

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

I don't want the giant ego. I don't want to become Kevin Costner, singing on the soundtrack to The Postman.

But I mean, even my family gets spoiled at times watching me doing things that I do, on and off the court.

Today, I will let go. I will stop trying to control everything. I will stop trying to make myself be and do better, and I will let myself be.

The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic.

I don't have any system. I dictate a lot, through a machine, and I also have a secretary. But I used to type just like everybody else.

I am a Christian. I know I am a Christian, knowing that Jesus Christ is my Lord and Savior.

It was necessary that the Devil should have a representation upon the Earth, as well as God.