The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others.

Neatness begets order; but from order to taste there is the same difference as from taste to genius, or from love to friendship.

You may depend upon it that he is a good man whose intimate friends are all good, and whose enemies are decidedly bad.

The craftiest trickery are too short and ragged a cloak to cover a bad heart.

What knowledge is there of which man is capable that is not founded on the exterior,--the relation that exists between visible and invisible, the perceptible and the imperceptible?

You can depend on no man, on no friend, but him who can depend on himself.

Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Him, who incessantly laughs in the street, you may commonly hear grumbling in his closet.

Be certain that he who has betrayed thee once will betray thee again.

Sensibility is the power of woman.

She is the ocean, gentle, smooth and calm on the surface…I am the fooling diver, braving her deep, dark, dangerous depth…

'Be yourself!' is about the worst advice you can give to some people.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises.

People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate.

I failed so therefore I succeed.

I love whom I love," Prince Lir repeated firmly. "You have no power over anything that matters.

It's harder that in looks," I told him when I finally got back in the car. "Most things are.

When it's time to die, go ahead and die, and when it's time to live, live. Don't sort-of-maybe live, but live like you're going all out, like you're not afraid.

A fault is fostered by concealment.