As the great ones of this world are unable to bestow health of body or peace of mind, we always pay too high a price for any good they can do.

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.

my boy? he is evenbetter than books. -fiction has nothing on you.

She blinked once, then twice, and yet again, sure what she viewed was just another part of this fantasy world that she had stepped into when her feet touched the green grass of Ireland.

Soul of a victim tends to prove her innocence.

I do want people to see me as a well-rounded actress, not just someone who plays in 'Turtle' movies.

It doesn't happen all the time, but in the moments where you really lose yourself and you fall into this character, it's like time travel.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

Everybody should just stay at home and meditate and they'd be so much happier.

The man who thinks with Horace thinks divine.

It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should.

I just want to keep learning.