Commonplace minds usually condemn what is beyond the reach of their understanding.

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 man who was aware that there could be no honor and yet had honor, who knew the sophistry of courage and yet was brave.

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We wake, if we ever wake at all, to mystery, rumors of death, beauty, violence.

Since the early '80s, I've found myself in war zones in various parts of the world.

I'm urgin all daughters to kiss their mothers with those lips that all that lipstick covers. You never too grown up to miss and hug her.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

Lord, I'm going to hold steady on to You and You've got to see me through.

I am doubtful of any talent, so whatever I choose to be, will be accomplished only by long study and work

I think that ranked-choice voting makes a lot of sense.

Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures.