If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in 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.

Don’t neglect your calling all in the name of employment

I'm not worried about dying. I consult with God, my maker. And I don't have a lot of problems to work out. I'm pretty squared anyway.

Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self.

When you make a movie, you just send it off into the world. You never actually live it with the crowd.

We approach markets backwards. The first thing we ask is not what can we make, but how much can we lose. We play a defensive game.

Long-term boredom can't lead to anything good.

People create their own experiences.

The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.

He was dull in a new way, and that made many think him great.

There is nothing impossible with God. All the impossibility is with us when we measure God by the limitations of our unbelief.