The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

Mental strength induces mind and body.

So. Monday. We meet again.We will never be friends—but maybe we can move past our mutual enmity toward a more-positive partnership.

Where do bad folks go when they die? No heaven awaits them, say to it goodbye

Well for one, the 13th amendment to the constitution of the US which abolished slavery - did not abolish slavery for those convicted of a crime.

Intellect is a magnitude of intensity, not a magnitude of extensity.

Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.

There are 101 websites out there for debate - this was a blatant last attempt to get someone to stand against Gordon Brown.

I feel myself becoming the fearless person I have dreamt of being. Have I arrived? No. But I'm constantly evolving and challenging myself to be unafraid to make mistakes.

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

I get a lot that people have a hard time believing that I’m a nerd... but I grew up with a Nintendo controller in my hand.