Silence is the best security to the man who distrusts himself.

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.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

None should say: ‘I can trust, ’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.

Sometimes knowing what to do is knowing when to stop.

You have to love what you're doing. I've never seen anyone succeed who didn't love what they were doing.

The mathematical giant [Gauss], who from his lofty heights embraces in one view the stars and the abysses.

The business of the Christian is nothing else but to be ever preparing for death.

Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

Cinema is gambling. It is better to gamble on a unique film even if it seems like suicide.

In the villages in Europe, there are still healers who tell stories.