It is not always from valor or from chastity that men are brave, and women chaste.

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.

Looking at your day from a “golden day” perspective helps you prioritize.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

Sometimes it takes failure to figure out who you aren't.

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

As always, victory finds a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.

All I could think about was him, and how much I wanted this, and how incredibly lucky I was to get it, and how tight I was going to hold onto it.

Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.

Why be normal? What's the point?

I still like me, inside and out. Not in a vain way - I just feel good in my skin.

What you earn depends on what you learn.