The person giving the advice returns the confidence placed in him with a disinterested eagerness... and he is usually guided only by his own interest or reputation.

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.

I came to realize we are held in the arms of God and are utterly completely safe - in life and in death

War and marriage and childbirth had passed over her without touching any deep chord within her and she was unchanged.

Chaol, " he said, looking over his shoulder. Dorian's eyes were frozen, his jaw clenched. "Treat her well.

Guess you can take the girl off the Earth but you can’t take the Earth out of the girl. Not completely, anyway.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all.

To me, the real thrill is in making the music, and then I just trust it to find its own audience, and at times it's big and at times it's small, but that's beyond my control.

I count it as a major victory to not only be on a series that's had a full season run, but to actually be on one that's gotten picked up for a second season.

I am an old sinner; and if God had designed mercy for me, he would have called me home to himself before now.

Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.

Man must behave like a lighthouse; he must shine day and night for the goodness of everyman.