If one judges love by the majority of its effects, it is more like hatred than like friendship.

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.

Sometimes we know who we want to be and what we want to do long... long before we know how to get there.

Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

I sacrificed for the Dallas Cowboys when most quit. I put in overtime to try to help young players.

No task is more difficult than systematic hypocrisy.

Apparently there is nothing in the news that falls between inhuman acts of horror and kittens.

I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid a tumor.

Politicians don't create jobs.

You can't move the sun, and you can't even move the tracks, so you have to do something else to better light the engines.

We are making progress militarily, there is no doubt about that. You've seen the reports from Misrata, although reports of the Gaddafi forces completely pulling out of Misrata seem to be exaggerated.