We often brag that we are never bored with ourselves, and are so vain as never to think ourselves bad company.

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.

The quality of your life is a direct reflection of the quality of the decisions you make each day.

But prayer isn't asking God to do what we want. Prayer is asking God to what is right.

He wasn't a patient. I expect someone cured him. You cure a lot of people in this country, don't you, with bullets?

The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedoms.

My rule of thumb is, what Siskel and Ebert like, I don't, and vice versa.

A just and wise magistrate is a blessing as extensive as the community to which he belongs; a blessing which includes all other blessings whatsoever that relate to this life.

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

I have pit bulls barking at me on half of the love songs.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.