It is the prerogative of great men only to have great defects.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.

Women marry men hoping they will change. They don't. Men marry women hoping they won't change. They do.

Not many get a chance to hit the career re-set button.

I am an actor through and through.

Listening with undivided attention and unconditional love Is perhaps the greatest gift we can extend to others.

In a thousand pound of Law there's not an ounce of love.

The music has to drive you. That's just it. You follow it. You follow the songs.

People tell me this is obvious. But it's ok to be obvious. Knowing and doing are different. Many people know many obvious things they completely fail to do, despite their knowledge.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

Thou frothy tickle-brained hedge-pig!