We come altogether fresh and raw into the several stages of life, and often find ourselves without experience, despite our years.

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.

In life, love is not everything, but without love, life is nothing.

The truth is, our parents are but part of the equation that forms us―because the only thing more powerful than fate is free will.

The intelligent investor should recognize that market panics can create great prices for good companies and good prices for great companies.

The earth is a museum of divine intent.

I never aspired to be anything. What I've done is beyond my wildest.

I should not believe in a God who does not dance.

I love all waste and solitary places.

You'll never have a garden - a garden needs walls and you have no walls.

What does 'economic justice' mean, except that you want something that someone else produced, without having to produce anything yourself in return?