High fortune makes both our virtues and vices stand out as objects that are brought clearly to view by the light.

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.

I'm so tired I never want to wake up again. But I've figured out now that it was never them that made me feel that way. It was just me, all along.

The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.

Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.

I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still.

I was scared I was going to have some weird shape to my head and I was pleased that I didn't.

Why would anyone be able to make $21 million not showing up for work for a single day? That is vulgar capitalism. That is not good for the nation.

You just want to go off and be intuitive and wild, and that's what Bryan Cranston brings to the game.

Oh, yes, I love sleepless nights.

Yes, many immigrants cherish the value of choice and opportunity and the value of education more than 7th or 8th generation Americans.

I love what I do. When a month goes by and I'm not working, I'm miserable.