Female gossips are generally actuated by active ignorance.

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.

If I shut everything else out and filled the room with memories, the past could become the present, and I could live there, with him. I would never leave.

The hunger for attention is usually a result of low self-esteem and the lack of unconditional self-love.

Nurses serve their patients in the most important capacities. We know that they serve as our first lines of communication when something goes wrong or when we are concerned about health.

The saying "Getting there is half the fun" became obsolete with the advent of commercial airlines.

Welcome to the New Raw!

In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.

I think there is a general interest in films that deal with contemporary issues. Constructions of Iran, Islam, the Middle East as well as the U.S. itself are also of interest, it seems.

No one can be trusted who isn't thrilled with himself at least now and then.

If you can't figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.

No enemy is so annoying as one who was a friend, or still is a friend,and there are many more of these than one would suspect.