We often boast that we are never bored; but yet we are so conceited that we do not perceive how often we bore 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.

All serious daring starts from within.

Before you are interviewed for the job you want, try on the complete outfit you intend to wear.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

To walk behind others on a road you are traveling together, to give precedence to others without envy - this is painful for an individual and painful for a nation.

I don't see how you can give someone who lied to the extent that he did a second chance in the same line of work.

Willing is not enough, we must do.

I'm pretty intentional about being highly invested in my kids' lives.

Every dance is a kind of fever chart, a graph of the heart.

If you work all the time, you lose the intermittence of reflection and thought at every stage. Take breaks - for you and your work.

One of my favorite little sayings is, 'To avoid criticism, say nothing, do nothing, be nothing.