Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

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.

When you see injustice among the nations, you will find out that the root cause is covetousnes.

Music is what our soul sounds like when it sings.

Sound unbound by nature becomes bounded by art.

Ten responsible and rational young citizens are sufficient to clean up the mess of a thousand old superstitious citizens.

When you're up in Maine, there is Canada, I mean it's looking right at you; it's a different viewpoint.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

True communication is communion-the realization of oneness, which is love.

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes.

When friendships are real, they are not glass threads or frost-work , but the solidest thing we know.

I'm searching for loopholes.