Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

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 am not afraid... I was born to do this.

It doesn't matter if the water is cold or warm if you're going to have to wade through it anyway.

Many lose heaven because they are ashamed to go in a fool's coat thither.

The things you do for yourself are gone when you're gone, but the things you do for others become legacy.What do you wanna be remembered as?

Profit is the celebration of service.

Sacrifice to the Graces.

In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

Happiness is not by chance, but by choice.

With sincerity and earnestness one can realize God through all religions.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.