The rust of business is sometimes polished off in a camp; but never in a court.

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.

If you feel that you can solve others problems, then please, work little more on your own problems and solve them first.

Take care of the elderly people.

Philosophic questions are attempts to understand the root nature of reality, existence, and knowledge.

Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.

Enlightenment doesn't occur by accident. It is a deliberate decision that someone makes again and again. It is something you grow into and develop in.

When a girl marries she exchanges the attentions of many men for the inattention of one.

Musically, I would never run dry. Any time I sit down to an instrument, I could write a song.

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the authority of the boot-maker.

The thing about a friendly smile is not just that it makes people like you but that it makes them like themselves.

Talking about the past is like a cat's trying to explain climbing down a ladder.