Indolence, languid as it is, often masters both passions and virtues.

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.

I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.

The inner encounters I have with animals—and will be teaching you to have— are exchanges of meaning.

The majority is the best way because it is visible and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.

I think my strength is always been in being very natural. I think Shakespeare and things like that would be more a stretch for me.

You almost can't wait too long [to get married]. The longer you wait, the better off you are going to be. And the happier your kids are going to be, and the happier a mom you are going to be.

High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.

For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.

Because there's one thing stronger than magic: sisterhood.

Behind every bad law, a deep fear.