The heart of man ever finds a constant succession of passions, so that the destroying and pulling down of one proves generally tobe nothing else but the production and the setting up of another.

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.

I know you weren't about to kiss me, warrior. Were you?” Gabrielle raised a delicate brow and tilted her head. “Because last I heard before you walked away, my kiss was 'forgettable.

'Change' is scientific 'progress' is ethical change is indubitable whereas progress is a matter of controversy.

I prefer to be alive, so I'm cautious about taking risks.

There's only one movie in my career I've had regrets with cutting it shorter, and I think some scenes maybe I shouldn't have cut.

Only a fool thinks price and value are the same.

Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.

When things are really painful, I turn it into comedy.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

I can't believe that OMON [Russia's riot police] would hit a girl. I simply can't imagine it.

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.