Often we are firm from weakness, and audacious from timidity.

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 tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him.

Death is a fearful thing.

Who I am in Christ is amazing. Who Christ is in me is the real story. It is beyond amazing.

Just take your time - wave comes. Let the other guys go, catch another one.

I just understand that Im supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit.

Each has its lesson; for our dreams in sooth, come they in shape of demons, gods, or elves, are allegories with deep hearts of truth that tell us solemn secrets of ourselves.

I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.

I really, really would like to see religion go away altogether.

We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.

Whenever someone calls me ugly I get super sad and hug them, because I know how tough life is for the visually impaired.