We often do shallow good in order to accomplish evil with impunity.

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.

Sometimes criminals work and for cops and criminals have favourite cops... (Person of Interest)

A good book is a man's best friend. It never leaves you even in your darkest hour.

The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the last generation.

Hard work always pays off, whatever you do.

Preventing the new generation from changing in any deep way is what most societies require of their educators.

Managers control. Leaders create commitment.

Perhaps he was a fool, but he thought that if a work were truly great you would only have to read it once and you would be stolen from yourself, desperately moved, changed forever.

The Method of Bisection is a sophisticated version of a tool used in fifth grade called "Guess and Check".

The thing about art is that life is in no danger of being meaningless.

Alix [MacKenzie] was a looser, more linear painter, dealing with amoebic forms, let's say, close to [Joan] Miró as opposed to my more static exploration of space.