It is difficult to like those whom we do not esteem; but it is no less so to like those whom we esteem more than ourselves.

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.

Distressed Hearts Have Similar Vibrations.

As we love truly and deeply, we see the white light of truth in them. Seeing this reminds us that the same light exists within us too - As the Tibetans say: "Recognition is liberation."

Anyone who can solve the problems of water will be worthy of two Nobel prizes - one for peace and one for science.

Purpose is the engine, the power that drives and directs our lives.

The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox — the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.

I just play the little guy, except I play him through dance.

I have fun with ideas; I play with them.

All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.

It is dissent from government policies which defines the true Patriot

I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes.