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.

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.

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.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

When we do what's right, regardless of circumstances or consequences, we set the table for God to turn the tables. All we need to do is stand up, step in, or step out.

If everybody is doing it one way, there's a good chance you can find your niche by going exactly in the opposite direction.

I go through life with a smile because I know things can be worse than they are.

John Wayne is as tough as an old nut and as soft as a yellow ribbon.

I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

I can now rejoice even in the falsification of a cherished theory, because even this is a scientific success.

I'm focused on the task that lies ahead for us.

As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them.

Why you won an election and why you didn't is a subject of, you know, books that get written 20 years later.

You know, bad people, I've never seen bad people have angels.