It requires no small degree of ability to know when to conceal one's ability.

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.

Truth and integrity must be so rare these days that it confuses people when they hear it.

To be magnificent, attract beauty like a magnet.

When we learn how to become resilient, we learn how to embrace the beautifully broad spectrum of the human experience.

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war.

I love being involved in all of the creative stuff; I love talking ideas with directors. Anyone with an imagination can create something fun.

The lessons of the past should steer us towards ensuring lasting legacies for generations yet to be born.

Behind every success, there lies a magical word: Dare!

He that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly become corrupt.

She must express life, death, happiness, sorrow, love and anger, but above all she must have dignity.

I don't like going to the gym because I don't like being with people I don't know in that intense environment.