No man is clever enough to know all the evil he does.

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 chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says 'I was beaten', he does not say 'My men were beaten.

You don't have to be old in America to say of a world you lived in: That world is gone.

Fashion is not about before, it’s not about after, it’s about now

For better or worse, the bulk of coal industry jobs are in Appalachia - and when that coal is gone, so are the jobs.

You, mother, are not responsible to set the whole world right; you are responsible only to make one pure, sacred, and divine household.

In a real sense faith is total surrender to God .

School should be eleven months of the year.

When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.

My dad is Irish. I spent my childhood going back and forth between Ireland and America.

Into the street the piper stepped, Smiling first a little smile As if he knew what magic slept In his quiet pipe the while. And the piper advanced And the children followed.