The most subtle of our acts is to simulate blindness for snares that we know are set for us.

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.

Most men overestimate themselves. It’s the only way they can reproduce. It’s why we’re all here, us humans. Overestimation.

Perseverance is such a beautiful word. But to experience it means we must first endure the unpleasantness life is sure to always bring our way.

I hate when I break my own rules. What’s the point of me being rational if I flail around like a clown?

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

I've always known I wanted a family.

I grew up in Nairobi, which is the capital of Kenya, so it's hustle and bustle, and there's always something going on.

Your requests change history because your prayers change God!

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

I didn't drive eleven hours across the state of Texas to watch my cholesterol.

I will fear no evil for I am the baddest beast in the land. (Nick)