It is easier to rule others than to keep from being ruled oneself.

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.

If she lives, she shall be my wedded wife. If she dies--mother, I can't speak of what I shall feel if she dies." His voice was choked in his throat.

if you want to match your beat with the universe look at the deepest level of present.

Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele.

We've got to do a better job with our kids. Teach good values, teach the fundamentals.

Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less.

I do things very impulsively; I don't really like to plan things at all. If I am passionate about something then I will do it.

Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms.

A departure from the truth was hardly ever known to be a single one.

I would not be the mere President of a Party. I feel bound to administer the government untrammeled by party schemes.