The art of using moderate abilities to advantage often brings greater results than actual brilliance

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.

Things, when magnified, are forgeries of happiness.

It's great to play a rock star. Maybe not so great to be one.

As I thought about that, I had to wonder: What will we know better about tomorrow? Who cares? Hindsight is useless.

Life's too short not to enjoy what you're working on.

I had a similar year back in 1984 when I felt like I couldn't lose.

The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks.

The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.

I mean, Hawaii is beautiful, but the world is full of beautiful places.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.