To think to be wise alone is a very great folly.

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.

Never give up

There is no membership required for shining the light.

Out of all the magic words in existence, kind words produce the most powerful transformation spells.

Please be a traveler, not a tourist. Try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. Those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.

Being kidnapped and abused by the undead was worse than calculus, but not by a wide margin.

I think I see her, please let me off this bus. Nadine, honey, is that you?

Inflationism is a dreadful cancer that is gnawing at the backbone of the civilized order.

An aphorism should be like a burr: sting, ... and leave a little soreness.

The spiritual discipline of simplicity is not a lost dream, but a recurrent version throughout history. It can be recaptured today. It must be.

Anyone who consistently makes you feel bad is not helping you get better.