Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.

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.

A lack of empathy is the greatest crime of all.

This is when I understood that we can do without almost anything – our home, even our country. But we will never do without other people, and we will never do without family.

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.

When I was young, we always had mornings like this.

I hope to play for the Red Sox a long time.

Any movement in history which attempts to perpetuate itself, becomes reactionary.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

Until death it is all life.

I wanted him like I wanted air to breathe. Not a choice- a necessity.

It is nice when people recognize me and approach me in the street. Anyone who says they don't like that is lying.