However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

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 worst thing about touring is the travel.

Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I great admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

Some people would be discontented in Paradise, others ... are cheerful in a graveyard.

I don't like to gamble, but if there's one thing I'm willing to bet on, it's myself.

I can't have a lot of people around me all the time. It really bugs me out that I have that many people. I need to be by myself.

I am a metrosexual and into male grooming - I moisturise, I exfoliate.

Jonathan Kreisberg is a great musician whose playing and writing always tell a story. His formidable technique and intellect never get in the way, but only serve the agenda of the heart.

If you got the job in the first place mainly because you look nice, I can't see why you should keep it when you don't.

I have no particular interest in antiquities or antiques, but I like things to meet a certain aesthetic.