The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

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.

Nothing represents a man better than his ideas.

Boxers are role models for a lot of young people. The sporting aspects should always be more important than business aspects.

Immediately after taking office, I will ask my generals to present to me a plan within 30 days to defeat and destroy ISIS.

Endurance is the free companion of Sorrow, and Patience her master.

You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's outside of what you see from a magazine.

I developed a sense of self before moving to crazy Hollywood, which was really important.

I don't like the idea that fame could mean that people can no longer relate to me.

Calm of mind, all passion spent.

Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.

You must believe in truth that whatever God gives or permits is for your salvation.