The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

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.

Without mathematics, your world becomes foggy! For a clear vision, you need to be educated in the Temple of Mathematics!

In memory, she lived and moved and laughed, but all that a photograph could offer was one frozen moment of a life.

We all pay for our choices.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

I went to Israel when the missiles were falling there.

I was appalled that the San Francisco ethic didn't mushroom and envelope the whole world into this loving community of acid freaks. I was very naive.

Grief brims itself and flows away in tears.

The more you extend kindness to yourself, the more it will become your automatic response to others.