The exceeding delight we take in talking about ourselves should give us cause to fear that we are giving but very little pleasureto our listeners.

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.

Let us not become so busy making a living that we forget to enjoy our Life. Every day of Life is meant to be Lived and Enjoyed.

If a fact does not modify your logic on being known, either you don't believe the fact or it is not a fact.

I started out really into musical theater. So you can imagine I was super popular. I wasn't awkward looking at all.

I have to just worry about my own opinion and the opinions of the people I'm working with and people who are close to me.

Faith is often the boast of the man who is too lazy to investigate.

Obedience out of love is joy.

The only trouble with capitalism is capitalists; they're too damn greedy.

Repentance is a one-faced Janus, ever looking to the past.

It's great to have gray hair. Ask anyone who's bald.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.