In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

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.

To desire is to dream.

A woman's love for a man is half animal passion and half hate. The more a woman loves a man, the more she hates him.

What I used to do between writing fits was feed my kids, ride my horse and go shopping for cat and dog food.

We are the Bibles the world is reading; We are the creeds the world is needing; We are the sermons the world is heeding.

Star Trek characters never go shopping.

In framing a system, which we wish to last for ages, we should not lose sight of the changes which ages will produce.

To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.

I consider myself to be a good guy so it's not hard for me to play that.

I appreciate the support and anyone who takes up a position on my behalf. Especially in matches, this feeling that there are people behind you, gives me a lot of strength.

You all would be really shocked, if you were dropped back down into when I went to college, by the narrowness of the opinions you could get just by reading newspapers and magazines and watching TV.