The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

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.

Not everyone can just up an’ go whenever they please!

That is my story. Believe what you will. I remember it all

If you ask God to show you those who are most in need of help, you might be surprised by what he will reveal.

In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

I personally think the downside of being able to change into anything is the fear that you don't know who you really are.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.

There is no real evil in life, except great pain; all the rest is imaginary, and depends on the light in which we view things

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.

If competitors don't like our two to one advantage, dominating market share with both SP and DS, well, I've got bad news. Because we just made it two and a half to one.