Jealousy is the greatest of all evils, and the one that arouses the least pity in the person who causes it.

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.

[B]eing very smart must also make you just a little bit crazy.

Each and every day had its challenges.

One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace

The frontiers of our dreams always converge with reality.

It is important for everybody to insure that the process will go on, that the ceasefire will hold. Of course, there is no ceasefire against Daesh [the Islamic State], Jabhat al Nusra, and Al Qaeda.

Enlightenment is a direct experience with reality.

I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.

But what are loyalty and caring really worth?" "To me? Everything.

It's no secret - if you know me, have ever met me or have shared a meal with me - that I'm a passionate environmentalist.

When we accept small wonders, we qualify ourselves to imagine great wonders.