The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

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.

We live in a culture of violence.

God will wait as long as it takes for us.

Learning without thought is labor lost.

Keep your eyes open to your mercies. The man who forgets to be thankful has fallen asleep in life.

I just like movies that somehow expose the world in a way that's different than you imagine it.

A mother is the best friend God ever gave.

Law is but a heathen word for power.

I advise you to say your dream is possible and then overcome all inconveniences, ignore all the hassles and take a running leap through the hoop, even if it is in flames.

For me, running is a lifestyle and an art. I'm more interested in the magic of it than the mechanics.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.