All women are flirts, but some are restrained by shyness, and others by sense.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

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.

It is only persons of firmness that can have real gentleness. Those who appear gentle are, in general, only a weak character, which easily changes into asperity.

To understand pretending is to conquer all barriers of time and space.

Laugh as much as possible. Because this makes your life better!

A hick town is one where there is no place to go where you shouldn't go.

The first day of school is bullshit

You see, though we travel together, we travel alone.

A man who is swayed by negative emotions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

Having a dream is what keeps you alive. Overcoming the challenges makes life worth living.

I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get, a good pair of shoes is going to last you a lifetime.

Begin where you are; work where you are; the hour which you are now wasting, dreaming of some far off success may be crowded with grand possibilities.

There is going to be a lot asked of me over the next few weeks but I am getting more experience now and learning all the time.