If we had no faults, we would not derive so much pleasure from noting those of other people.

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.

All too often, our elegant political theories amount to nothing more than ideology triumphing over common sense.

There is no 'big sin' or 'little sin', it's just sin.

But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin.

Actually, I was prone to random acts of stupidity. I considered it to be one of my talents.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I'm a real big celebrity. I'm this megastar.

There's nothing better than striving to be a better man.

Always that "if" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving.

The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over.

It’s time to close the books on infectious diseases, declare the war against pestilence won, and shift national resources to such chronic problems as cancer and heart disease.