Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

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.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

Whether you try too hard to fit in or you try too hard to stand out, it is of equal consequence: you exhaust your significance.

I'm coming to this world not to work. I want to come to this world to enjoy my life. I don't want to die in my office. I want to die on the beaches.

Some people learn comedy, and some people just are comedy.

Let this be a lesson to us all, said the preacher. You will be walking someday in the dark and the truth will come shining through, and behind you will be a life that you never want to see again.

Until women can visualize the sacred female they cannot be whole and society cannot be whole.

One of the biggest lessons we can learn in life is to do everything possible to reach an accord with the individual we are having trouble with.

Virtually all ideologues, of any variety, are fearful and insecure, which is why they are drawn to ideologies that promise prefabricated answers for all circumstances.

Psychology Today is probably one of my favorite magazines, Guitar, Guitar World. People.