The reason why so few people are agreeable in conversation is that each is thinking more about what he intends to say than others are saying.

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.

Kindness is a girl's best friend.

Attitude is everything.

Through all of youth I was looking for youwithout knowing what I was looking for

If you defer investing your time and energy until you see that you need to, chances are it will already be too late.

For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

Were all men equal to-night, some would get the start by rising an hour earlier to-morrow.

All over the world copyright holders are trying to limit consumers' rights. We cannot have that.

Leave off looking to men to find out what you are not - seek within yourselves to find out what you are.

Art is the work of a human being – something a person does with generosity to touch someone else to make a change for the better.

For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it.