Imagination does not enable us to invent as many different contradictions as there are by nature in every heart.

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.

those, who are believed to be most self—abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

First publication is a pure carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life.

Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant but inside I was always quaking.

We are going to do everything that we can to protect working families in this country.

Reality, truth, and Jesus Christ are incredibly open-ended

Without the darkness, we can't really appreciate the light

We want far better reasons for having children than not knowing how to prevent them.

The United States has an incredible debt. That is obviously not the way to live. You have to eliminate waste in your life as the United States has to eliminate waste in its spending.

What's good for Blacks is good for all of America.

Mixing oil and testosterone can be dangerous.