No matter how much care we put into hiding our passions under the appearances of devotion and honor, they can always be seen to peer out through these covers.

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.

We live a moment at a time and this is unique.

If I could, I want to take a page from the George Clooney-like actors of the world. They do things that are relevant, things that don't necessarily have huge box office appeal, but they matter.

The information that follows is taken primarily...from government hearings and reports published from various Senate and House committees.

That which is creative must create itself.

Helping people to connect with their personal creative capacities is the surest way to release the best they have to offer.

How tall are you big boy? Six foot nine inches! Let's go up to my place and talk about the nine inches!

I don't understand how people can take a gentle, loving life and treat it with such cruelty.

The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing.

It is owing to our limitations that a thing appears to us as single and separate when in truth it is not a separate thing at all.