Love often leads on to ambition, but seldom does one return from ambition to love.

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.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends upon our dispositions, and not upon our circumstances.

I cannot marry the facts of William Shakespeare to his verse: Other men had led lives in some sort of keeping with their thought, but this man is in wide contrast.

The strength of walls depends on the courage of those who guard them.

Anybody who gets away with something will come back to get away with a little bit more.

Be yourself, that’s what makes the world go round!

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures.

I'm pretty tight - I rewrite, in some cases, 70 to 80 times before I show it to people.

I suppose there's a lot of people that've got a better life than me. But I don't know, I feel very fortunate and very blessed.