If you cannot find peace in yourself, it is useless to look for it elsewhere.

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.

Baby is baby.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

When your dad makes a living as a children's singer, you figure, 'I can do anything.' He made up his own job and did it.

The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

Daily toil, however humble it may be, is our daily duty, and by doing it well, we make it a part of our daily worship.

A Hindu is a born mystic, and the luxuriant nature of his country has made him a zealous pantheist

Four varieties in society: lovers, the ambitious, observers, and fools. The fools are the happiest.

It (suicide) became a possibility like Maybe when I grow up, I will be dead. Life was a cake that looked good on the bakery shelf but turned to sawdust and salt when I ate it.

I am not frightened of much, but I wouldn't like to get ill.

Solitude is one of our great superpowers... Solitude is the key to being able to make effective decisions and then having the courage of convictions to stand behind those decisions.