Opportunity makes us known to others, but more to ourselves.

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.

Nature gave us pain as a messaging device to tell us that we are approaching, or that we have exceeded, our limits in some way.

I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.

Wives are young men's mistresses companions for middle age and old men's nurses.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

Do you know most of the Jewish songs have the same trend of sadness as Negro spirituals?

I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work - for example a lawnmower.

when one has learned to wait patiently, one has learned to live.

The Self itself is the world; the Self itself is 'I'; the Self itself is God; all is Siva, the Self.

I was pirouette and flourish, I was filigree and flame. How could I count my blessings when I didn't know their names?

Your blasphemy, Salman, can't be forgiven. To set your words against the Words of God.