Sometimes accidents happen in life from which we have need of a little madness to extricate ourselves successfully

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 more I live, the more I learn. The more I learn, the more I realize, the less I know.

You see, to find the brightest wisdom one must pass through the darkest zones. And through the darkest zones there can be no guide. No guide, that is, but courage

Infect everyone with your smile

Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.

The trick is growing up without growing old.

A good relationship is like fireworks: loud, explosive, and liable to maim you if you hold on too long.

I'm a female in comedy, so of course I want there to be more women on 'SNL', and women of color.

I think it has done us more harm believing in the huge differences between left and right, Democrat and Republican.