What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

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.

Not to mention, "Magnus noted, "that Jace killed him. That would put anyone off".

No, I am not bitter, I am not hateful, and I am not unforgiving. I just don't like you.

Atheists have to live with the knowledge that there is no salvation, no redemption, no second chances. Lives can go terribly wrong in ways that can never be put right.

To know God is to fear Him. And this fear is to love Him as He deserves to be loved.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

Probably one of the happiest moments, outside the birth of all of my kids, was the first time we won an Emmy, that the show won an Emmy. That was a big night.

We all have private ails. The troublemakers are they who need public cures for their private ails.

Hope opens doors where despair closes them.

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.