The reason we do not let our friends see the very bottom of our hearts is not so much distrust of them as distrust of ourselves.

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.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

I deeply care about what the fans think.

More and more of our finest actors are finding room for themselves in the world of television - but I truly believe it's because some of the best stories are being told there.

The chief art of learning is to attempt but a little at a time.

Gain or loss, what is worse?

The sea is the most beautiful face in our universe.

A pure heart means a single heart, a heart in which only one desire lives: love.

I'm just going to do me; I'm not trying to do the Eminem thing, the D12 thing or the 50 thing.

MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.

If you let a person talk long enough you'll hear their true intentions. Listen twice, speak once.