A well-trained mind has less difficulty in submitting to than in guiding an ill-trained mind.

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.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. ... When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim toward reproduction.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.

If you were to describe me as teetotal, on behalf of my constituency I'd have to sue; that would lose me every vote in the Highlands.

We are looking at a society increasingly dependent on machines, yet decreasingly capable of making or even using them effectively.

I'm a big fan of all styles, even Biggie and Wu-Tang, but I gotta do my thing.

If our 'message' is anything, it's a positive approach to life. That life is basically good. People are basically good.

You need to recognize that the risk of moving toward your dreams is much lower than the slow, everyday punishment you inflict on yourself by suppressing your dream

Appear as you may wish to be

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.