We often select envenomed praise which, by a reaction upon those we praise, shows faults we could not have shown by other means.

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.

If you can dream it, you can do it.

For some it is harder towrite a novel than to row a bathtub across the North Atlantic.

If you walk down the street, within five minutes you will see someone who is morbidly obese or obese.

As a cornerstone of my policy, we will substantially expand public-private partnerships to maximize the amount of investment and funding that is available for space exploration and development.

If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma.

Listening to others, especially those with whom we disagree, tests our own ideas and beliefs. It forces us to recognize, with humility, that we don't have a monopoly on the truth.

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.

Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.

If you take a needle and stick her in the booty and take a needle and stick me in the booty, we're both going to say ouch.

I think people want very much to simplify their lives enough so that they can control the things that make it possible to sleep at night.