Humility is often a false front we employ to gain power over 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.

Joy is our native conditionLet go all non-joy and there is joy

Reason. The point where man begins to find that he exists.

I had a naiveté that I would remember the things that I had written already, but I was getting lost in the forest of my own ideas and having to find my way out.

We massively exaggerate the exotic risks we can least control and massively undervalue the mundane risks we can control.

The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.

Despite these hurdles, manufacturers in the U.S. and their employees are doing remarkable work.

Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert. Cooling, icy, clean. She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman.

Close interaction with farmers and scientists can expose the chef to new flavours that can be used to delight diners.

Idle hands make fretful minds.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.