There is at least as much eloquence in the voice, eyes, and air of a speaker as in his choice of words.

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.

It takes a big man to trust a thief, " Renny agreed

Best not to take, yet doubt its strength, A leash with Demons at its length.

Life punishes those who have things in abundance by making them worry about petty things like: what to wear, or, which car to drive.

People need books for a better life. Books are a way of self-nurturing.

On the one hand, there is no reason that a black person needs to live a portion of his or her life being concerned about the people of color around him. On the other hand, if you don't you're crazy.

Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware.

I really enjoy not getting in a car and running errands on bikes.

The question is being asked, 'Are we alone?' And though we now focus on that question we need to think beyond that to what if we're not alone? Then what becomes the next imperative question?

The price of being the best is having to be the best.

I know I have to keep up my image. It's all about how you handle the situation.