Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

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 had no name for that particular hue of orange, other than unfortunate.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

My departure from Hollywood was described as a walk-out. No one understood that I was cracking up.

We can have no power from Christ unless we live in a persuasion that we have none of our own.

I loved playing Darla.

I believe in a God of a second chance and a God of love and mercy, because I need so much more of it myself.

Like a shadow, I am and I am not.

Don't think about the start of the race, think about the ending.

A saint is someone whose life makes it easier to believe in God.