Pride indemnifies itself and loses nothing even when it casts away vanity.

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.

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

Overtime, your actions betray your heart.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

People have to take responsibility for themselves. We need to get the housing industry going again. We don't need government intervening in every step.

Jealous of the actors now, are we?" "What, of some fancy boy on the screen? Inconceivable." Oh, this was going to be good.

I was trying to disturb the war.

I believe we're going to find that respect and affection are essential to all relationships working and contempt destroys them.

I am a survivor. I am like a cockroach, you just can't get rid of me.

There is a kind of latent omniscience, not only in every man, but in every particle.