The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

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.

What you give away with love will always remain with you.

You are capable of loving the unlovable. The grace of God gives you the power to love.It also takes conscious effort and decision to choice to love.

A delicate thought is a flower of the mind.

Few consider how much we are indebted to government, because few can represent how wretched mankind would be without it.

I not only have a body; I am this body.

Want of punctuality is a want of virtue.

There's a rule or something that if a girl can crack you up, you have to do what she says.

The beauty is that it's all a part of this wonderful dream I had in college. It's beautiful to see what it's turned into. It's the journey that I'm most proud of.

To judge you by your failures is to cast blame upon the seasons for their inconstancy.

Each day is a lifetime. In the morning we are born. The day lies before us: vast and bright and new.