As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

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.

Love makes a few weeks so rich that all the rest of our lives seems poor in comparison.

My city love me like Mac Dre in the Bay

I never go jogging, it makes me spill my martini.

I look for the meaning in what's funny, and I look for what's funny about things that are meaningful to me.

I am an actress, a producer, a philanthropist, a wife, and above all a mommy to my beautiful babies, Leonardo and Valentino.

Every act of kindness and compassion done by any man for his fellow Christian is done by Christ working within him.

Rachel Maddow is a national treasure. I think that we need honest voices like that and we need journalism like that.

Look up at the stars, not down at your feet.

Sometimes the painting starts to relate very directly to either sights seen or experiences felt, other times it just goes off on a tangent that you really can’t articulate.

I have always been kind of a prude. But kissing is harmless to me, and sometimes a kiss can tell if it's even worth seeing that person again!