What is called liberality is often merely the vanity of giving.

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.

With patient and persistent, we possess what we want.

Christianity's goal is not escape from this world. It loves this world and seeks to change it for the better.

In life, we make the best decisions we can with the information we have on hand.

I'd always wanted to do these types of things - pieces of magic I could put out not as illusions, but really doing it.

And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field.

The types of thoughts that you think create a state of mind. The reason you think the thoughts you do results from your level of power.

Trying to conserve a privileged global position makes change traumatic for the US.

Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself.

There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.