It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

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.

You make me burn with life, and yearn to set aside my cold and distant, solitary ways.

He threw his hands to his eyes and hissed. Like the hiss of incinerating ashes. "What is this bright, orange orb in the sky that mocks me with its warmth?

One day you'll understand the sheer awesomeness that is me.

The farewell between Hitler and Mussolini at the station was very affectionate. Both men were moved.

I trust no one who hasn’t time for music.

Limits the Romans' anxieties to two things - bread and games.

Throwing young people on the scrap heap is a public health emergency.

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

Awakening your spiritual side is really what artists do. When you hit a groove, it's not you; it's the spirit world.

There is no knowledge without theory.