Whatever ignominy or disgrace we have incurred, it is almost always in our power to reestablish our reputation.

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.

You are not the mind itself. For You are the Lord God of the mind. All these things are liable to change, but You remain immutable above all things.

You are not broken and in need of fixing. You are wounded and in need of healing.

The other guys are selling certainty. Not me. I'm on the corner with doubt.

You have got to attract the brightest and the best, but the brightest and best won't stay unless they see real career options.

If Moses had been paid newspaper rates for the Ten Commandments, he might have written the Two Thousand Commandments.

I don't even read the papers. I read 'USA Today' because it has color photos.

Time is the most valuable asset you don't own.

I am very confident. I look confident. I act confident. I speak in a confident way.

Do what you love and work for whom you admire the most, and you've given yourself the best chance in life you can.

There is a time when to avoid trouble is to store up trouble, and when to seek for a lazy and a cowardly peace is to court a still greater danger.