It is most difficult to speak when we are ashamed of being silent.

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.

As a famous person you think how you're gonna end it, get away and have a normal life.

Priest organizations around the country, both local and national, should realize that their membership has a serious image problem and undertake programs to improve it.

Mathematics is only the art of saying the same thing in different words.

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal.

There is no evildoer who could not be made good for something.

Liberating Iraq would be a cakewalk.

There is no genius where there is not simplicity.

Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love.

No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing.