Nothing is so capable of diminishing self-love as the observation that we disapprove at one time what we approve at another.

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.

The only way to find happiness is to create it inside your mind.

No form of government matters nearly as much as the spirit and intelligence brought to the administration of any form of government.

I don't feel opportunistic ever, in anything.

When primitive law has once been embodied in a Code, there is an end to what may be called its spontaneous development.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.

Me, personally, I'm just happy. I have a great mother. I have two great sisters. I couldn't ask for more. I'm healthy. I do what I love.

When you work with people whom you like and you admire because they're so good at what they do, it doesn't feel like work. It's like you're playing.

Nobody, at least sitting in my seat , is defending drunk driving. I am not for drunk driving.

There are three all-powerful evils: lust, anger and greed.