If one judges love according to the greatest part of the effects it produces, it would appear to resemble rather hatred than kindness.

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.

Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Asuka...you're really cute. When I look at you...I start wanting to protect you.

Creativity & innovation is to events, what the heart & soul is to the living

The conversations of men had always been muddy rivers, the surface's roiling a reflection of what's buried, but the bottom some mysterious thing that would always be hidden.

I've had to deal, a lot, with my own sense of intimidation at meeting famous people - especially actors, but really any famous people.

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

Folly is often more cruel in the consequences than malice can be in the intent.

I'm not into business at all.

The right way to go easy is to forget the right way.