Our self-love can less bear to have our tastes than our opinions condemned.

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.

The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.

Nothingwould beeasier withoutyou, because youare everything, all of it-sprinkles, quarks, giantdonuts, eggs sunny-side up-youare the ever-expandinguniverseto me.

If its clear that you are doing right thing, just go ahead. But answer yourself first before doing something.

Psychology of small things rules.

Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed.

If you work harder than somebody else, chances are you'll beat him though he has more talent than you.

I was ready to quit music. It felt to me like music equalled death.

I am not a priest, I am not an imam, I am not a rabbi and I am implementing the French laws on every French citizen.

People pull away from something if it's not of good taste. People lean into something if it's okay.

We are all so self-obsessed, not really helping others as we should, spreading the love so to speak.