Our temper sets a price upon every gift that we receive from fortune.

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.

Things remain paranormal, as long as we scientists don't reveal the underlying physical processes.

May I remind you, I am half Demon and I know full well how attracted I am to your dark side, just as the Angel in me is addicted to the shy and good girl that stands before me now.

If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.

In the horrifying calculus of self-deception, the greater the pain we inflict on others, the greater the need to justify it to maintain our feelings of decency and self-worth.

As long as you're open-minded you can learn stuff from anyone.

Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.

Dyin' ain't much of a livin'.

Be it a village or a city, education is very important, and it always comes into you.

If you accept such love with purity and humility, you will understand that Love is neither giving nor receiving -it is participating.

I first had the thought about making a musical of 'Edwin Drood' as far back as 1971.