A man of understanding finds less difficulty in submitting to a wrong-headed fellow, than in attempting to set him right.

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.

My rapier wit hides my inner pain.

When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter, '... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.

The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres.

Conceptual art might be, for better or worse, (definable as) the art most susceptible to lossy compression.

Hodie mihi cras tibi, said the inscription. Sic transit gloria mundi. My turn today, yours tomorrow. And thus passes away the glory of the world.

That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important

The tow pillars of democratic government are the primacy of the law and the budget.

The more employment one creates, the more tax benefits they will get.

Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.