Fortune cures us of many faults that reason could not.

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.

There are as many styles of beauty as there are visions of happiness.

The mind and the spirit can be detached from the physical body in deep meditation. Once the mind and spirit get detached from the physical body, the inner process of life becomes clear to you.

It is the fool who declares ‘I am ascending the summit, ’ while he’s toddling around in the ditch.

I don't really think so much of what kind of man I am. I just do what I like and enjoy, and let other people think what they want.

Each violet peeps from its dwelling to gaze at the bright stars above.

After that, she wasn't sure what the game was or if she'd imagined it. All she knew was that she had lost.

Pyramid-building, earthquakes, even wars may serve to increase wealth, if the education of our statesmen on the principles of the classical economics stands in the way of anything better.

Yeah, one of my approaches with my community, my friends, the companies I represent, has been to take the attitude of what I bring instead of what I can get. What can I give?

When we conquer our fears, we discover a boundless, bottomless, inexhaustible well of passion.

Sometimes we need to tell ourselves that we're not going to do certain things, just in order to stay sane.