The virtues and the vices are all put in motion by interest.

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.

Nobody is rewarded for occupying a position, but for becoming effective in the position occupied. If you occupy a position, you must have the weight of influence in order to matter!

You can be a leader, a follower or out of business.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.

I think when you come to Australia you immediately get the sense of fitness and taking care of yourself and being healthy, and it really shows.

So many movies are so formulaic because you've got to get it done in an hour and a half. On a TV series, that's where the really interesting stuff can happen.

The Ten Commandments are the charter and guide of human liberty, for there can be no liberty without the law.

Everybody is great really and has got to be great.

Everyone will experience the consequences of his own acts. If his acts are right, he'll get good consequences; if they're not, he'll suffer for it.

She will love deeply--suffer terribly--she will have glorious moments to compensate.

I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'.