We should scarcely desire things ardently if we were perfectly acquainted with what we desire.

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.

When I was born I was loved and feared, people played with me but I never played with them. I loved them.

I do not have deep theological understanding or opinion, but I do not read the Bible as the literal word of God.

Tessa put a hand against the wall as she made her way numbly down the stairs. What had she almost done? What had she nearly told Will?

Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

Farrah's dressing room was next to mine. There was a little hole in the wall. I let her look.

Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.

Perfect night, wasn't it?" "It could have been." I smiled up at him. "But you were there.

China's ability to deliver nuclear warheads on American cities is expanding.

We've witnessed history in the making.

For many people, there is an almost power to be found in prayer.