There are few women whose charm survives their beauty.

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.

she is the only woman I've ever known who could make a man call.Ever

While food makes us live, stories are what make our lives worth living.

You have to support your children to have a healthy relationship.

Our response has been, "Well, let's then make an effort to get the Israelis and the Palestinians to sit around the table." That hasn't happened. So we only have ourselves to blame for this crisis.

And then, what is grace? Grace is love. But grace is not love simply, and purely, and alone. Grace and love are, in their innermost essence, one and the same thing.

she was consumed by 3 simple things: drink, despair, loneliness; and 2 more: youth and beauty

Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.

I don't buy into you're on the slag heap when you're 40 or 50 or 60 or 70 or whatever.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

Dream long enough and dream hard enough you will come to know dreaming can make it so.