Every one speaks well of his own heart, but no one dares speak well of his own mind.

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 moment we stop fighting for each other, that's the moment we lose our humanity.

A lawyer's empathy for her client deepens when she realizes that she has only seen the last couple of phases of his decline. How hard it must his initial adjustment have been to his loss of freedom?

Darling, I'm so unutterably bored as to be a hazard

When a man of 40 falls in love with a girl of 20 it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

Does not the gratitude of the dog put to shame any man who is ungrateful to his benefactors?

Love is a letter on pink stationery.

I've never walked into a restaurant, asked for a table and been told, 'We're full.'

Single payer means something different to everyone. The way I define it is that health care is a right and not a privilege.

But at the same time, if the right thing came along, I would do it in a second.

Classical music is one of the best things that ever happened to mankind. If you get introduced to it in the right way, it becomes your friend for life.