The happiness and unhappiness of men depends as much on their ethics as on fortune.

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.

The Four Agreements:1. Be impeccable with your word.2. Don't take anything personally. 3. Don't make assumptions. 4. Always do your best.

I was in Moldova airport and I went into the duty-free shop - and there wasn't a duty-free shop.

I'm the age now that Rock was when he picked me up, so I can understand how he felt - how his fame limited his freedom. You get kinder as you go along.

We will respond with a heavy hand to the brutal murder of Jews who came to pray and were killed by lowly murderers.

Do not flatter yourselves: if you go to places of worship merely to look about you or to hear music, you are not worshipping God.

If you're waiting for someone to believe in you, you'll be waiting forever. You must believe in yourself.

I started my career in a town so small the local clinic was called Fred's Hospital and Grill.

It's nice that you spend a day with your mother,' she said. "Children should do it more often.

I marvel every day at how people can excel - and that’s what really gets me going.

The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.