Our actions are like the terminations of verses, which we rhyme as we please.

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.

Modern Christians should not mistake our post-Victorian sense of propriety for moral purity.

To all of you who have made my being alive so wonderful, so exciting and so full, my thanks and all my love.

The arts vividly illustrate the fact that neither words in their literal form nor numbers exhaust what we can know. The limits of our language do not define the limits of our cognition.

Adoption is a wonderful way of becoming a family. If being a biological parent is any better or more rewarding than being an adoptive parent, I really don't think I could stand it!

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

Imagine ... Imagine no religion.

Discovery comes as a result of positive discontent, a constructive dissatisfaction. In fact, one might quite truthfully say that there is no discovery when one is content.

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.

I have my own opinions, but my songs don't share them.

We're seeing how the videos translate to the live shows and how the technology is really reaching kids.