Nature creates ability; luck provides it with opportunity.

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.

Still following the rules, huh?" He grabbed his shift off the back of the kitchen chair and pulled it on."Still breaking them?" she fired back.

I cannot heave my heart into my mouth. I love your majesty according to my bond

Sarah turned around and there standing just a few feet from her was the legend himself, and he was far from disappointing.

I believe a young player will run through a barbed wire fence for you. An older player looks for a hole in the fence.

Success in confronting terrorism on the regional or international levels is contingent upon addressing its root causes and protecting the right of peoples under foreign occupation to resistance

Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves and the only way they could do this is by not voting.

Arjuna, who is the fearless waririor in the story is a very wordly indvidual, we assume with high past lives.

I'm sorry to keep focusing on the New Yorker, but everybody who was growing up when Calvin [Trillin] and I were growing up wanted to be published in the New Yorker.

Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young.

Every word or concept, clear as it may seem to be, has only a limited range of applicability.