We should gain more by letting the world see what we are than by trying to seem what we are not.

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.

When things do not go your way, remember that every challenge — every adversity — contains within it the seeds of opportunity and growth.

Be fully awake in the sacred moment.

To be a true success, you must prepare yourself for an ocassional failure to gain experience and wisdom.

One of the silliest of all discussions is the question whether God is personal-it would be more useful to inquire whether ice is frozen.

I know that big, important things don't just come together overnight, but I've been me for a long time now and it's still not working.

I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts.

imagining anything is the first step toward creating it. Believing in a true self is what allows a true self to be born.

Suffice it to say Cherie Snodgrass and I were good friends a long, long time ago. After Mr Snodgrass confronted my wife, the friendship ended and my marriage remained intact.

So if you want to know how Exxon Mobil can make $10 billion profit in 90 days, just look around. The whole world was built for them.

When the last Puritan has disappeared from the earth, the man of science will take his place as a killjoy, and we shall be given the same old advice but for different reasons.