Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on.

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.

The only French word I know is oui, which means “yes, ” and only recently did I learn it’s spelled o-​u-​i and not w-​e-​e.

Faith in God is force of life.

From success you get a lot of things but not that great inside thing that love brings you.

I've been fortunate enough to travel the world because of my career, but the downside has been spending long spells apart from my daughters.

We read, we hear, we believe a good theology of grace. But that’s not the way we live. The good news of the Gospel of grace has not penetrated the level of our emotions.

Ah suppose man, ah'm too much ay a perfectionist, ken? It's likesay, if things go a bit dodgy, ah jist cannae be bothered, y'know.

You are loved by the One who knows you best. God's love will never disappoint you and never give up on you.

You always want to be a little in over your head and be challenged to get better.

Even the wisest men make fools of themselves about women, and even the most foolish women are wise about men

I believe we have all this image stuff and blah, blah, blah but at the end of the day it all boils down to music don't you think?