The heat of youth is not more opposed to safety than the coldness of age.

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.

Not with a club, the Heart is brokenNor with a Stone –A Whip so small you could not see itI've known

My mother taught me very early to believe I could achieve any accomplishment I wanted to. The first was to walk without braces.

…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.

Faith moves mountains, but only knowledge moves them to the right place.

Here we all live in a state of ambitious poverty.

I have seen horrible places and have risked my life, but I know that somehow God will always save me.

Being busy with work, and as a mum, I'm a big fan of online shopping.

A miracle no longer seems to me a manifestation of extraordinary power, but an extraordinary manifestation of ordinary power. God is always showing himself.

Get out of your own way. Often, we're our own worst enemy when working towards our goals.

I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.