What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

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.

Mothers train your children to only Speak Truth

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything.

To know what has to be done then do it comprises the whole philosophy of practical life.

But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.

The economic game is not supposed to be rigged like some shady ring toss on a carnival midway.

The three things that motivate creative people - autonomy, mastery, purpose!

I love the mystery, the reconstruction of history, and the way past and future define each other.

If I'm having a chardonnay in the show, it'll be green tea with water.

My country tears of thee.

Any institution which does not suppose the people good, and the magistrate corruptible, is evil.