A fashionable woman is always in love - with herself.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

Muslims may fall short of Islam but Islam will never fall short of Muslims.

It is the definition of an egoist that whatever occupies his attention is, for that reason, important.

If we justify war, it is because all peoples always justify the traits of which they find themselves possessed, not because war will bear an objective examination of its merits.

We can't think narrowly. We have to think in the biggest possible way.

Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside

In the bureaucracy, incentives will forever be inverted. Failure results in success: in more funds, more training, more time off.

Man was created a little lower than the angels and has been getting a little lower ever since.

...Delay, says Dr. Manner, is a luxury which people with right-now cancers cannot afford.

A wise man once remarked that we can count how many seeds are in the apple, but not how many apples are in the seed.

Always he had wanted to tell somebody about his life, but when he had tried, his confidante had looked at him.