We are more often treacherous through weakness than through calculation.

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.

Life doesn't require ideals. It requires standards of action.

Flying might not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price.

Everyone must correct his own self; this is something more difficult to cope with, but it is not impossible.

You can give the same recipe to ten cooks, and some make it come alive, and some make a flat souffle. A system doesn't guarantee anything.

Now in November nearer comes the sun down the abandoned heaven.

To be the best, learn from the best

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Those who would know much, and love little, will ever remain at but the beginning of a godly life.

People are really sick of seeing the winner not win and what the public thinks should happen.

I think we have to be very careful. If we do go back in, we need to understand why and what the probability of success is and exactly what we're going to do and what the limits are.