Humility is the altar upon which God wishes that we should offer Him His sacrifices.

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.

Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.

God is not a being among other beings, but the infinite Whither that makes possible the very functioning of our human spirit.

Deep in Decemberit's nice to remember without a hurt the heart is hollow.

I seem to have excalibured this knife.

A candidate could easily commit political suicide if he were to come up with an unconventional thought during a presidential tour.

To whom to speak when the other no longer is? The place is empty when emptiness occupies all of the place.

I'm not very much of a reader really, because I find much of it very bad, very uninteresting, very speculative.

I was exactly having fun. I was stone miserable, but I wasn't hating doing it; I was loving doing it, but it's just damaged and warped.

But the life of freedom requires a beginning, and here a beginning is a resolution, and the resolution has its work and its pain-thus the beginning has its difficulty.

There are two conflicting philosophies that I love: "Everything happens for a reason," as well as "you can change everything that you have control over."