Small minds are much distressed by little things. Great minds see them all but are not upset by them.

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.

Men were notorious for their acts of disloyalty.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

You can't tell yourself that your stress is produced in your head and feel better. You still need to learn how to create a change.

To experience beauty, love, truth and peace, or God, your mind has to be stilled.

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

A bad memory is the mother of invention.

It's not the disability that defines you; it's how you deal with the challenges the disability presents you with.

they ask me to remember but they want me to remember their memories and I keep on remembering mine

Hark, the glad sound! The Saviour comes, The Saviour promised long; Let every heart exult with joy, And every voice be song!

So it is that the life force may take possession of a man-- so that in the end he may be possessed by something greater, no longer at all belonging to himself.