There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.

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.

I think marriage is a boring and fault-ridden contractual obligation.

I always write the script by myself.

You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

I think Russians today have a distorted picture of capitalism, liberal democracy and market economy.

Did I say that the President's entire job is image management? Of course not.

The question that faces the strategic decision maker is not what his organisation should do tomorrow. It is, what do we have to do today to be ready for an uncertain tomorrow?

Grow internally first. Strengthen your bottom line first before considering external growth.

You should never go to a meeting or make a telephone call without a clear idea of what you are trying to achieve.