The vices enter into the composition of the virtues, as poisons into that of medicines. Prudence collects and arranges them, and uses them beneficially against the ills of life.

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.

Weather forecast for tonight: dark.

What is the best thing about people doubting your potential? The pleasure of proving them wrong.

A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty. But one no longer has the right to say so aloud.

The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

We often make people pay dearly for what we think we give them.

The trouble with a free market economy is that it requires so many policemen to make it work.

The Dell will continue to be a hard place to go and take points.

Nobody can deprive me of the fact that I had a good time.

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

I feel myself acting like a lunatic, but I can't stop. It would be like refusing to breathe.