If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

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.

You ought to travel on your own path.

Sin is the great clogger, and the blood of Christ is the great cleanser.

We are attempting, by this Constitution, to abolish factions, and to unite all parties for the general welfare.

After a session of yoga, the mind becomes tranquil and passive.

But each time I seemed to be climbing into a roller coaster and finding myself coming through the downhill run with that sort of dazed feeling that we all know.

It's unrealistic to think you can only have one good product. People are not that poor. They can buy what they want.

When you start something creative for the first time, you are completely free, no real influences other than your own vision.

It's seldom that you get to work with one director more than once. I've worked with Clint Eastwood three times, but that's the only one that's happened with, simply because I adore his work.

Music is my passion - it's what I love and it's in my blood. You can never take me away from my work.

I like to keep fit, but I never lift very heavy weights...