The old begin to complain of the conduct of the young when they themselves are no longer able to set a bad example.

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.

Be the master of your own thoughts to control your future.

Think your best thoughts every moment, every day. You will be the best person on the way.

Caregiving often calls us to lean into love we didn't know possible.

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Success in life has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

If I could take a punch like that, I might have been able to think up a name besides George for all my sons.

How beautiful the world was when one looked at it, without searching... just looked, simply and innocently.

We need racist stereotypes right now of our enemy in order to encourage our warriors to kill the enemy.

The necklace is the anchor; it's the classification of jewelry that says what the whole idea is about.

Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake or a pond, so that on my days when I have nothing to do, I can go fishing.