A resolution never to deceive exposes a man to be often deceived.

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.

The Supreme Being longs to hear His Children talk to Him every day at any time.

Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.

I want to show off how beautiful my subjects are, whether its a cheetah or a live girl or two of them together.

What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured.

Your words can permanently influence a life.

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

When we envy another, we make their virtue our vice.

We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.

And as in other things, so in men, not the seller, but the buyer determines the Price.

The question is not whether or not you will face trials. The question is, how will you respond when you do?