He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks.

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.

Why do you stay in the prison of stress when keys are in your hand?

Even a clock that is not going is right twice a day.

God is the captain of our lives, sometimes He diverts our plans and our ideas, let Him do so because he will never let us do something daft.

As far as what people think of me, maybe my stuff should just be put online for free downloads when I'm gone.

I'm interested in reality but I'm not interested in realism at all. I'm interested in the ways that I think people want to relate.

Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth.

I really, truly believe in learning from other people's mistakes.

I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.

If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.

Hillary Clinton made no outreach to Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. So they have to insert themselves.