We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we suppose ourselves to be.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

The throbbing shimmy spread through my hips and thighs. I could have sworn my body started to glow as if light were shooting from my fingertips and each strand of hair.

I want to explore every aspect of you.

Realness often stands alone but painfully just.© TyLeishia Douglass 2012 All Rights Reserved

Maturity refers to having a sound understanding of basics and making a fair judgment.

There is no more terrible fate for a comedian than to be taken seriously.

I know there are a lot of expectations of me, and I will do the best I can.

Civility is the art and act of caring for others.

The White man pays Reverend Martin Luther King so that Martin Luther King can keep the Negro defenseless.

That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.

The embodiment of kindness is often made difficult by our long ingrained patterns of fear & jealousy.