Before strongly desiring anything we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

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Power concedes nothing without a demand.

Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit.(What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)

Whatever you now do, whatever you now believe, whatever your current circumstances may be, you are perfectly equipped and fully capable of fulfilling your needs and desires.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design, and I've devoted much of my career to this.

If someone came up with a new idea for a pantomime that worked, then that would be great but we shouldn't step away from Jack and the Beanstalk, Aladdin or Mother Goose.

Incompetence is a double-edged banana.

In observing the Sabbath, one is both giving a gift to God and imitating Him.

A serious person can never be innocent, and one who is innocent can never be serious.

I want people to understand the amazing, positive way our software can make leisure time more enjoyable, and work and businesses more successful.