If we never flattered ourselves we should have but scant pleasure.

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.

Do as you must -- you are not a child. But understand that there are many people willing to make your life more difficult. It is up to you to find a way to make things easier for yourself.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results we value it in the act.

I'm terrible at speaking extemporaneously about my work - I get completely tongue-tied and consumed with fear.

Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.

The first time I spoke to a group this large was at my college commencement in 1969.

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up.

She laughed, and the sound was so melodic that I knew I wanted to hear it again.

Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

It's an absolute myth that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. Of course it doesn't.

Only by abolishing private property in land and building cheap and hygienic dwellings can the housing problem be solved.