Only the great can afford to have great defects.

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.

You can chase love. If you are lucky enough to catch it…is it really yours?

One very important key to maintaining our daily sanity is a simple scheduling tactic I call Putting Things the Hell Off.

I choose not to believe in any gods as an act of charity, ” Marcus said. “Charity toward whom?” “Toward the gods. Seems rude to think they couldn’t make a world better than this,

People don't want the truth when they ask how you're doing after you lost your brother.

No is an unacceptable answer. I'm allergic to no.

I want to move to a world of no nuclear weapons but I want to do that through multilateral disarmament so that we all disarm together.

This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting of God's image in us.

I would not like a king who could obey.

Go, do not be afraid and serve

How wide and sweet and wild motherhood and sisterhood can be.