Conceit causes more conversation than wit.

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.

The love between friends could create life.

Do not try to lead men who are unwilling to follow you; if their heart is not in it, you will never find the old spirit or the old courage.

The Enlightenment is not a nightmare, nor is it something that comes easily to us. It is an aspiration - and a good one!

I'm just excited I get to sing all the time. There's nothing but open ears of people wanting to listen.

That's all I did - that's all I ever did - try to do what Billy Strayhorn did.

When a man says that he is perfect already, there is only one of two places for him, and that is heaven or the lunatic asylum.

I'm not capable of having an affair. You can ask my wife. I'm not physically capable.

Death is the surest calculation that can be made.

We will not be intimidated or pushed off the world stage by people who do not like what we stand for, and that is, freedom, democracy and the fight against disease, poverty and terrorism.

No marriage or family, no ward or stake is likely to reach its full potential until husbands and wives, mothers and fathers, men and women work together in unity of purpose.