We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

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.

My mind is the sun, and my heart is the moon.In the sky between them, there I am.Cristen Rodgers

There were not words enough in the English language, nor in any language, to make his attitude and conduct intelligible to them.

Now everyone has a license to speak, it’s a question of who gets heard.

Kids can amuse themselves with almost anything.

There is so much more to this world then outward appearances. Our society basks in the illusion of normalcy every day, and hides from the truth every night.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

I've always wanted to be in musicals, not just in film, but on stage. I think it's a wonderful medium.

God has work for you to do.

it is true that nothing is gained without something being lost: everyone knows that in fulfilling oneself one necessarily sacrifices some possibilities.