We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

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 progress takes place outside the comfort zone.

the only thing required to be a woman is to identifyas one.- period, end of story.

If you don't quit and don't cheat and don't run home when trouble arrives you can only win.

If your heart has grown distant from Allah, the real question is who moved?

The keeping of an idle woman is a badge of superior social status.

Mankind must remember that peace is not God's gift to his creatures; peace is our gift to each other.

I guess it's pretty diverse, but I do have quite a 30-and-older male audience coming out to the shows. I don't know if that's due to me being a female or what.

I don't really have anything against Will Young or Gareth Gates.

Lead­ers live by choice, not acci­dent.

A suprising number of physicians manage to continue to care about persons even after the rigors of medical training.