The best way to rise in society is to use all possible means of persuading people that one has already risen in society.

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.

If you want to radiation poison a nation, just start shipping them cheap ionizing smoke detectors for the home with a little too much radiation in them.

A bad habit never disappears miraculously, it's an undo-it-yourself project.

To destroy a people, you must first sever their roots.

The biggest atrocity of all is to indoctrinate our children into a system that does not value their creative expression, nor encourage their unique abilities.

At first you can stand the spotlight in your eyes. Then it blinds you. Others can see you, but you cannot see them.

The world's oldest woman passed away at 116. They keep dying. I think that title may be cursed.

What we need to do is stand up and fight for our people in our states.

Teachers themselves know if there's a colleague who can't keep control or keep the interest of their class, it affects the whole school.

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood.