Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.

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.

I fear that there will be no neat ending to this, in the manner of the old Greek plays. Where the Gods descend, and all is explained, and tidied away.

No worthwhile life can be lived without risks, despite current American superstitions to the contrary.

Importunate praying is the earnest inward movement of the heart toward God.

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.

Lennie said quietly, "It ain't no lie. We're gonna do it. Gonna get a little place an' live on the fatta the lan'.

I'm pretty confident about my sobriety, but I don't want to get too confident because that's when I'll crash.

Mortal through I be, yea ephemeral, if but a moment I gaze up at the night's starry domain of heaven, Then no longer on earth I stand; I touch the Creator, And my lively spirit drinketh immortality.

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.

Voice your position in God and you will be surrounded by all the resources of God in the time of trial.