Silence is the safest policy if you are unsure of yourself.

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.

Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

I try to be a good human being and keep up with what's going on in the world by reading and staying in touch with the current events.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

Veganism gives us all the opportunity to say what we "stand for" in life- the ideal of healthy, humane living. Add decades to your life, with a clear conscience as a bonus.

Do me wrong, do me right, tell me lies, but hold me tight.

Now the Democrats control the Senate. But the good news is that now the Republicans can admit that Strom Thurmond has been dead since 1988.

Anybody who knows about capitalism knows that bankruptcy is an essential part of capitalism.

The right way to begin is to pay attention to the young, and make them just as good as possible.