The generality of men have, like plants, latent properties, which chance brings to light.

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.

Inferiority intentions are sample chapters of defeated stories... Courageous beginnings are examples of true leadership values!

Appetite is governed by our thoughts, but hunger is governed by the body.

You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.

There is no substitute for victory.

In my early days of flying, if you flew on instruments, you were inevitably going to fly in thunderstorms. That was just a part of the business of flying.

I actually acted onstage before I'd ever seen a live performance, and I loved it.

Plan to be better today, but don't ever plan to be finished

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I'm usually way more pleased with the stuff that just kinda happens by accident and is no way a pop song. But sometimes the easiest thing for me to write is pop songs.

if I can't get what I want - well, I'll want what I can get.