The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

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.

I don't own you, you just belong to me.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

I prefer using cream-based products on my skin. I love having that summery dewy skin - I like using cream blushers as well.

Out of water, I am nothing.

It ought to be done by the elected officials themselves because they have the credibility. And it's not like we aren't willing to help.

The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.

Racing a thoroughbred grand prix car in front of a home crowd will be a surreal and mighty experience.

Smooth words in place of gifts. [Lat., Dicta docta pro datis.]

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

When you have two busy kids running around the house, returning e-mails is a task, let alone surfing the web.