Old fools are greater fools than young ones.

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.

Trust yourself, and remember you are a miracle.

Silence is a source of Great Strength.

A lion's strength does not lie in its roar.

All human wisdom is contained in these two words: 'wait' and 'hope'".

The moods he's shown me have all been vastly different...as different as summer and winter, sometimes with fall between them.

When an intelligent man reaches the point of inviting self-explanation and offers surrendering the key to his heart, he is assuredly riding a drunken horse.

Poverty makes people do reckless things, but [the rich] do worse to protect their [interests]

The people of Missouri said they expect their elected leaders to support public schools because they know that education is the best economic development tool there is.

I had a very strong interest in music, specifically the piano from a very small age.

If a corporation shuts down and leaves, liberals don't care. It gives them an enemy, it gives them a villain, they love to criticize them and it's got people in need, people out of work.