Politeness is a desire to be treated politely, and to be esteemed polite oneself.

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.

She is clothed in strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.

The war is coming to the streets of America and if you are not keeping and bearing and practicing with your arms then you will be helpless and you will be the victim of evil.

IBM Plus Reality Plus Humanism = Sociology.

Why do all Republicans need Lego hair?

The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make a good gun; it is imagination.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by how one thinks and acts.

As I grew older I became a drunk. Why? Because I like ecstasy of the mind.

I'll always be a foreigner.

Successful people don't fear failure, but understand that it's necessary to learn and grow from.

It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future.