The praise we give to new comers into the world arises from the envy we bear to those who are established.

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.

The more neurotic and evasive a person is, the shorter the range of his interests.

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

When you're in governance, you understand the limitations and the complexities of governance.

The Cold War was a war, and we won it.

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows.

When you're as important as I am, getting your feelings hurt by me is almost an honor.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something.