There are more defects in temperament than in the mind.

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.

Everything needed for success has been placed into us from the beginning

A best friend is the one person that doesn't leave you worse off by their actions or yours.

The person who feels secure, loved, safe and happy inside will have a secure, safe and happy life. Your inner integrity will be matched by those around you

If people want to compete for leadership of a religious group, they can compete in piety. A chilling thought. Or funny.

Men are foolish to expect us to revere them, when, in the end, they amount to almost nothing.

Speech writers are more vulnerable to vanity than any other group of people in Washington.

My best advice to individual investors can readily be summed up into two closely linked precepts. Be patient and don't be greedy.

Do not let anyone stop you from succeding

I will aim to restore the Japan-U.S. alliance and Japan's strong diplomatic capabilities. Japan can't pursue a strong foreign policy without strengthening its alliance with the United States.

More people can be great leaders than think they can, but they need a purpose greater than themselves.