A man's worth has its season, like fruit.

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.

The deepest need of our darkness is to comprehend the light which shines in the midst of it.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

My velvet Elvis means the world to me. Although he may not be worth much dough, he means more to me than some old Rembrandt or Van Gogh.

Anyone who doesn't speak English isn't worth speaking to

Rather than just reacting to the waves of things that come, ride them with deliberate intention.

I have figured out it's not what you do on the field, it's how many games you play in.

Really good original ideas are very hard to come up with. Good ideas - easy. Really good, original ideas - it can take months.

Dignity and majesty have I seen but once, as it stood in chains, at midnight, in a dungeon in an obscure village of Missouri.

As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it, the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

[L]et us work to rid ourselves of our attacks of over-zealousness especially when it offends against respect, esteem, and charity.