Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

The happiness in our hearts is there for we dare to dream in light when the world tells us to scream in the darkness.

The key to friendship with God, he said, is not changing what you do, but changing your attitude toward what you do.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

In moderating, not satisfying desires, lies peace.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

Like my grandmother always said, 'you never know the blessings that come from suffering.

When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.

Before anything else, you have received breath - the gift of life itself. The first word about you is GIFT.

When anyone escapes, my heart / leaps up. Even when it's I who am escaped from, / I am half on the side of the leaver.