If we have not peace within ourselves it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

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.

Some people you meet and they're your friend for a day. Some you meet and you never really know at all. And then there are those who get caught inside your soul and stay there forever.

It was supposed to be us against the world, Tyler and me versus everyone else. Now it's just me.

And remember: the flesh is as sacred as it is profane.

African Americans have always known that a little bit of paranoia was healthy for us.

My life and my plan wasn't very good, but at least it was my plan. It got to that point that I just couldn't stand it any more.

If you are trying to balance the scales of justice and equality in all your work relationships, you're going to come up short.

the people of one nation alone cannot save their own children; each holds the responsibility for the others' children.

Help is not in the sky, help is within you, in your mind; help is your reason! Turn your face to your reason not to the sky!

I'm not a person that's walkin' down the street looking mean all day.

If I gave you any thought I probably would.