One can find women who have never had a love affair but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

Certain things need not be said, and there’s nothing, not a whisper, prayer, not a sacrifice, not a payment of any price, that would change what’s about to happen.

deceivers shall always be at the junction of double mindedness

Most of us continue to believe that those who show utter contempt for human life by committing remorseless, premeditated murder justly forfeit the right to their own life.

Life is a stream On which we strew Petal by petal the flower of our heart.

The 20th century ended with a single surviving model of human progress.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

Many think kids have lots of time and few responsibilities. And that's just not true. They are stressed and under pressure.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

I'm just a very primitive, infantile folk singer.

Noooo, there’s no way I, a mere handsome and sexy shopkeeper, could possibly have bankai!