Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)

A lie travels round the world while truth is putting her boots on.

Between two stools one sits on the ground.

With enough 'ifs' we could put Paris in a bottle.

No rose without a thorn.

He who can lick can bite.

The price spoils the pleasure.

Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.

There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.

Whoever profits by the crime is guilty of it.

Only he who does nothing makes no mistakes.

Until you know who you are you can’t write.

When people live in abnormality for too long, the abnormal becomes normal and eventually, identity is lost

Violence can be a gift. Violence belongs to everyone.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

Shakespeare is the true multicultural author. He exists in all languages. He is put on the stage everywhere. Everyone feels that they are represented by him on the stage.

Dispatch is the soul of business.

Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy.

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

I make more movies than I see.

I've always been a worker. I've never expected be given anything.