We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

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.

For what is truth? In matters of religion, it is simply the opinion that has survived. In matters of science, it is the ultimate sensation. In matters of art, it is one's last mood.

Loving someone isn’t a hard task, it’s not a chore, you don’t wake up one day and decide to break their heart because you got all hot and bothered, that doesn’t happen!” he boomed.

If your glass is half empty, fill it up to be full.

Humility is recognizing the fullness of our sin, so we can embrace the fullness of God's mercy.

You don't become a new person by changing your behavior; you discover who you are in Christ and your behavior changes accordingly

I'd like to make music for a long time, and all different types of music. Maybe I'll start my own label to get other artists off the ground.

We all seem to stumble, planning our own demise, Getting the big picture, and making it wallet-sized.

It is not about whether you are an executive, a studio or a network. If you have a story or an idea you can build a following for it.

I don't remember feeling love.

Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.