We acknowledge our faults in order to repair by our sincerity the damage they have done us in the eyes of others.

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.

We cannot hope to create a sustainable culture with any but sustainable souls.

You can't help everyone and most critically you can't help people who don't need you or see the value you have to offer

I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.

There's been a lot of talk about Jack White wanting to work with me, and I've always admired him, and of course, he lives in Nashville, too.

Compassionate conservatism [is] most importantly, making sure that government is not the answer to people's problems.

During the past few years I have led a sometimes hard battle for German foreign policy.

I've never eaten a Hot Pocket and then afterwards been, I'm glad I ate that. I'm always like, I'm gonna die.

If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that.

You just watch somebody you love slowly, slowly disappear and go away.

If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.