It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.

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.

We wonder with our thoughts to our sacred-destination

The Bible is to be our basis of authority. We must “by faith” accept [Jesus] as the Son of the living God. This sounds narrow and intolerant, and in a sense it is!

I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

Memoir implies the need to reveal something about yourself - to recount your life for educational purposes.

The day that hunger is eradicated from the earth there will be the greatest spiritual explosion the world has ever known. Humanity cannot imagine the joy that will burst into the world.

It is remarkable with what Christian fortitude and resignation we can bear the suffering of other folks.

I work out every day. It's part of my life. That's one of the benefits of having kids in school full-time.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.

You are not given the light by anyone—not even by a spiritual teacher. You are that light.