However much we may distrust men's sincerity, we always believe they speak to us more sincerely than to others.

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.

To move forth and grab your destiny is admirable. To shape your own future with the strength in your fist is beyond that.

An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.

Humor is a way to deal with stresses. It is a way to cope.

A politician is like quicksilver: if you try to put your finger on him, you find nothing under it.

One of the things we know is that you cannot motivate other people, but you can remove the obstacles that stop them from motivating themselves. All motivation is self-motivation.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

Knowledge is the accumulation of information whereas intelligence is one's ability to process information to render good decisions.

When you know clearly what you want, you'll wake up every morning excited about life.

I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.

Racism is not merely a simplistic hatred. It is, more often, broad sympathy toward some and broader skepticism toward others.