Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

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.

...all that we do is governed by the law of opposites in which every so-called positive act is exactly and equally balanced by its opposite.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

Ji Wenzi always thought thrice before acting. Hearing this the Master said, "Twice is enough.

We all face difficulties of our own, and how comforting it is to immerse yourself in a book - my book, any book, any romance. It's entertainment, it's escape, and it can even be an inspiration!

I don't wanna be afraid, I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today, and know that I'm okay.

Whenever, at a party, I have been in the mood to study fools, I have always looked for a great beauty: they always gather round her like flies around a fruit stall.

America has been a beacon of hope for vulnerable people throughout the world.

The redemptive power of divine grace no longer seemed credible, nor very respectable in the arbitrary performance that was claimed for it.

Embrace struggle... It is your greatest teacher.