The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

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 quality of your life depends on how you take control of your time

a relationship without trust is like a car without gas..you can stay in it all you want, but it won't go anywhere...

It doesn't matter who you are. Everyone's fear is equal.

More people continue to be and do exactly the things in life that prevent them from getting what they want or from waking up excited about their day.

How presumptuous they had both been never to consider growing old as an achievement and a challenge. Aging was something they'd both wanted so much to avoid.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

Evil is the chronic malady of the universe, and checked in one place, breaks forth in another.

Staring down hard truth takes guts.

As we come closer to Him, we not only "stand all amazed"-we even kneel all amazed!

Any stigma, as the old saying is, will serve to beat a dogma.