No matter how brilliant an action, it should not be considered great unless it was the result of a great motive.

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.

Wherever you go, go with all your heart.

Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas.

This is not 1968 and the invasion of Czechoslovakia, where Russia can threaten its neighbors, occupy a capital, overthrow a government, and get away with it. Things have changed.

We talk about the past like it's the strangest dream. Then we repeat the things we never dreamed we'd do.

The Internet of things will augment your brain.

All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale.

My father's motto has always been 'Room in the heart, room in the house.' As charming as this sounds, it translates into a long line for the bathroom and extra loads of laundry for my mother.

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that at a party or alone in your room it will always be difficult to guess at the long term worth of anything.

Keeping house is as unpleasant and filthy as coal mining, and the pay's a lot worse.

The more I can learn about music, the more I learn about other things.