A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

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.

If people in the position of power are not made to be accountable, then, ungodliness, injustice and oppression will continue to be the order of the day in the society.

We, as children of God, have an advantage over the world

All around the Mediterranean you'll find cultures that believe men can't control themselves and shouldn't have to try.

She heard the snuffle of hypocrisy in her prayer. She had to cease to pray.

Until women themselves reject stigma and refuse to feel shame for the way others treat them, they have no hope of achieving full human stature.

It feels good to turn on the TV and have options, a variety. That's why television is so good.

If you want to know how little your dignity is worth, take it to the pawnbroker.

I think people deceive themselves about themselves, particularly as they get older.

The risk of a terrorist victory is greater when in fighting terror, democracy betrays its own essence.

Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.