Hypocrisy is the homage which vice pays to virtue.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

Intellectual controversies tend to be like dog fights without the teeth, in which the barking not the biting does the damage.

The parent of every great and lasting decision is a thought. Therefore, contemplate deeply and thoroughly and then execute.

Life is architecture and architecture is the mirror of life.

Man is a pupil, pain is his teacher.

Choose the kids. There will be plenty of time later to choose work.

That is true beauty which has not only a substance, but a spirit; a beauty that we must intimately know, justly to appreciate.

Holiness is the architectural plan upon which God buildeth up His living temple.

The break would never come as long as fear could turn to wrath.

The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars.

An addiction to distraction is the end of your creative production.