That conduct often seems ridiculous the secret reasons of which are wise and solid.

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.

Wagamama. Text messaging aficionados might like to note that this is one of the most satisfying words you can possibly type.

Some friend of yours, perhaps?""Except yourself I have none, " he answered. "I do not encourage visitors.

Being rich and famous isn't all happiness and at times the pressures have got to me.

I adore people who ask questions and who cause others to share in their search.

How about this John Kerry controversy? So he's out there in California, tells some kind of joke and it backfires. He's saying he botched the joke. ... This guy can lose elections he's not even in.

You are no more at fault for having depression than if you had asthma, diabetes, heart disease, or any other illness.

It is more difficult to be an honorable man for a week than to be a hero for fifteen minutes.

I've never been one to run from a challenge.

Free government cannot long endure if property is largely in a few hands, and large masses of people are unable to earn homes, education, and a support in old age.

I note that the Africa loves to depict the grace of reptiles.