How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

What stops most people in their tracks. It’s not the dreaming, we all have dreams. It’s not the visioning process. It’s usually the hard part of the equation. The part where we need to create action.

Endings bring new beginnings. Love has many truths. And knights come in all colours.

The world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for everything you get and you have to appreciate every bit of success the world gives you.

It is always terrible to be told to go play with people one doesn't know.

On the pathway that leads to enlightenment, only your heart can tell you what is right.

In this atmosphere I soon became interested in nucleic acids.

I live a bit outside of Stockholm and I almost never go into town. I can live anywhere, I think.

Life tells you nothing, it shows you everything.

I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense.