There are reproaches which praise, and praises which defame.

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.

Success is a path of setbacks, passion, purpose and inner strength

Punctuality is the soul of business.

Any life is made up of a single moment, the moment in which a man finds out, once and for all, who he is.

I love cakes. Chocolate and coconut cakes. I love that combination!

The way he treated me & the way I treated him, the way we took care of each other & our family, while he lived. That is so much more important than the idea I will see him someday.

Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

I still want my right to defend myself. A railroad operation, and you know it, from Nixon on down. they got you running around violating my constitutional rights.

I view every game I play for England as it could be my last, so I go out there and enjoy it. It's the only way I can approach it.

I'm doing mental training as well. So, you know, body, mind, and spirit - everything is being addressed, every single day. Generally I'll have three training sessions a day.

It goes far towards reconciling me to being a woman, when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one.