It is almost always a fault of one who loves not to realize when he ceases to be loved.

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 ain't power that corrupts, it's the changes you put your head through getting it.

Experience all things.

Besides numerous science courses, I had the opportunity to study philosophy, the history of architecture, economics, and Russian history in courses taught by extraordinarily knowledgeable professors.

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries.

The rednecks. Well, you're not going to get there with climate change and [Vladimir] Putin and all the rest of it.

Always look ahead, but never look back.

I used to go into bars on my days off, and I decided that wasn't too good for me.

The power of the word is real whether or not you are conscious of it.

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.