Nothing is given so profusely as advice.

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 best way to worship God is to honor His people

Champions are made in the dark before they are revealed in light.

Sometimes a hero is unbelievably good for so many but terribly bad for someone else.

Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.

Any girl who was a lady would not even think of having such a good time that she did not remember to hang on to her jewelry.

Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated.

If the choice is go to war or end up with an American city hit by weapon of mass destruction, then the choice is easy.

When I show a film at a festival, I am showing myself. Everything is at stake for me.

By constant dripping, water hollows stone, A signet-ring from use alone grows thin, And the curved plowshare by soft earth is worn.

Helicopters don't fly, they vibrate so badly the ground rejects them.