Few things are impossible in themselves: application to make them succeed fails us more often than the means.

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.

Stop waiting for the perfect day or the perfect moment... Take THIS day, THIS moment and lead it to perfection.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

I love writing about people on the road.

Do as I have taught you, and you will stay alive.

The slave trade was globalism. Why people insist that globalism, after its hideous history, is a good thing, I do not know.

My mother always texts me saying 'Fighting! Do well, my handsome son!'.

Since coming to Congress, I have been advocating for increased resources for research in the physical sciences and for the Department of Energy Office of Science in particular.

If you want to be a true revolutionist, you must first quit chewing gum, because revolution requires high seriousness!

Prayers for the condemned man will be offered on an adding machine. Numbers constitute the only universal language.

If you spot an opportunity and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you've got.