The accent of one's birthplace remains in the mind and in the heart as in one's speech.

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.

Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.

Every day you should up with the excitement in knowing that God’s plans for you are far greater than your dreams for yourself. The best is yet to come!

Your hair is your helmet- wear it well.

Most people don't think about plyometrics when they think about powerful strength. But I do lots of them to build mine.

When you are doing something neat, and you're doing it with neat people, and there is that convergence, something amazing will happen.

When a woman has five cats, she doesn't have to be 'made crazy'

Religion is always falling apart.

Babies aren't dishwasher-safe.

Pete Rose is too rich a character to fit on a bronze plaque. He requires a good, trenchant, poignant (ah, Petey) book, and this is it.

Do not think you have gained a virtue unless you have first been tried by its opposite.