The fame of great men ought to be judged always by their big, fancy names.

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.

A teacher can kindle your mind and let you memorize information, but true education is often self-education.

Peace means the way of finding the inner calmness, tranquility and joy, in the midst of conflicts and injustice.

The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people, ' who created the government that Americans still live under.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

When shooting a story about someone, their hands should always be on your list to shoot.

Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

I've seen the needle and the damage done.

That's insanity. We must be good all the time.

I have always found it interesting... that there are people who regard copyright infringement as a form of flattery.