There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

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.

Heart can keep a secret, but face is not a good secret keeper! So what heart knows, face will expose it!

Is there a difference between loving someone and being in love with someone?

Disaster beats stasis. Better a rolling stone than a moss-covered rock.

There is no dogma that the organ or harmonium can be used in church, but not the drum.

Stress and looks are directly connected as far as I am concerned. If you are happy, you look good.

Eric McCormack is directing talent waiting to happen.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

At the centre of Christianity is community; we are gathered by the Lord around the altar.

Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change.

The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.