History never embraces more than a small part of reality

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.

The key is to keep charisma and charm positive and underpinned with sincere and good intentions.

Perhaps we can start counting those kisses once more. I think you owe me a few.

I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

I have to own something before I can say it, and I have to own it before I can sing it as well, emotionally. I only enjoy acting and singing if I am believing what I am doing.

There is no broader way to apostasy than to reject God's sovereignty in all things concerning the revelation of himself and our obedience.

I like to allow accidents to happen, not to force them, and yet not let myself feel miserable if they do happen, because they are so often the best things.

Farts and poop are still funny and will always be funny.

You better watch out, or you're going to be defeated by pessimism!

Character is blazing sunshine in the soul's abode, the body.