One man may be more cunning than another, but no one can be more cunning than all the world.

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.

True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.

Honour and I would have to create our world, live by our own rules. My family wasn't ready for her just yet. I didn't know if they ever would be.

Someone needs to tell the truth, but it shouldn't be my job.

When you absolutely believe in yourself and your ability to succeed, nothing will stop you.

If you don't wake up at three in the morning and want to do something, you're wasting your time.

We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.

If I can't be my own, I'd feel better dead

Political freedom means the absence of coercion of a man by his fellow men.

When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.

All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.