A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

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.

Life has sadness, joy, beauty, like poetry.So be passionate and write a great story.

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.

Using terrorism or jihadists or extremists for any political agenda is immoral.

Nothing is more cruel to the young than to tell them that the world is made for youth.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

A time will however come (as I believe) when physiology will invade and destroy mathematical physics, as the latter has destroyed geometry.

You're a big one,[...] a tall drink of water, but I got to tell you, you don't look too bright. I got a son, stupid as a man who bought his stupid at a two-for-one sale, and you remind me of him.

Having enough money has to go hand in hand with living in a way that you're not being a slave to your possessions.

Carter Kane, 14, died tragically in Paris when he was eaten by his sister’s cat Muffin.

My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes