It is much better to learn to deal with the ills we have now than to speculate on those that may befall 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.

A covenant differs from a contract almost as much as marriage differs from prostitution.

I knew it was a day of endings, one way or another.

Like all Americans, I will never forget where I was the morning of the 9/11 attacks.

Defend Paris to the last, destroy all bridges over the Seine and devastate the city.

Can we make a better world for our children? I believe we can, if enough people are concerned and get involved in changing what is wrong with society.

There are no easy answers, there's only living through the questions.

I have always valued quiet, and the eternity of it that I face is no more dreadful than the eternity of quiet that preceded my birth.

Pritkin and Mircea mixed like oil and water, only not so well.

To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.