If we resist our passions, it is more due to their weakness than our strength.

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.

It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.

[G]iving yourself some loving attention is not selfish. It is sensible. If you feel loved and cherished--even if it is only by yourself--then you will have more love to give to others, too. (83)

Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.

We can't stand silence, because silence induces thinking. And if we thought, we would have to face ourselves.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

People only buy when they're ready to buy. Not when you're ready to sell

I just try to be relax, because I'm always been a relaxed person.

I love Alfa Romeos and that [Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio] was tremendous.

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.

Since Eve ate the apple, much depends on dinner.