He who refuses praise the first time that it is offered does so because he would hear it a second time.

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.

Hiring should be like dating. A great marriage does not happen in a 30 minutes interview.

Never break another man's rice bowl.

I lose my patience, and I own it too, When works are censur'd, not as bad but new; While if our Elders break all reason's laws, These fools demand not pardon but Applause.

You're not stealing anything, you're not breaking anything, so I'd guess you're Stephanie.

It is by great economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Give me the right word and the right accent and I will move the world.

There was only one catch and that was catch 22

I am only interested in the ideas that become obsessive and make me feel uneasy. The ideas that I'm afraid of.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Silence is a place of great power and healing.