We do not like to praise, and seldom praise anyone without self-interest.

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.

Speak against unconscious oppression, Speak against the tyranny of the unimaginative, Speak against bonds.

God is more concerned about the attitude of our hearts than the way we express it. Worship isn’t supposed to be entertainment.

Committee: A group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.

Life is the enjoyment of emotion, derived from the past and aimed at the future.

I'm incredibly lucky that my profession allows me to be where I choose, really.

I think back to the old people I knew when I was growing up, and they always seemed larger than life.

I don't think my sense of humor has changed at all; I was born with this, for better or for worse.

The purpose of discipline is not to punish, but to correct.

That’s the last time you’re going to kiss me,” I warned when it ended. He smiled knowingly, and in his eyes, I could see his own memories of that night. “So you say.

All kinds of indications will come from above and whatever you do must be referred to the Above.