There are fine things that are more brilliant when they are unfinished than when finished too much.

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.

Some people live a lifetime every second, others only a second in a life time with little happiness to find. Learn to seize each and every second and make your life divine!

Success is hard, rewards are scant and the glory not always there.

Adding power makes you faster on the straights. Subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere.

She said she knew she was able to fly because when she came down she always had dust on her fingers from touching the light bulbs.

I don't believe in religious tests, and I don't believe my religion is all that important to the people I represent. And I think there's too much religion in politics.

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

I never saw any good that came of telling truth.

Your urge to control life controls you.

His mother saw that he was not lonesome, and because she was an understanding mother, even though she was a cow, she let him just sit there and be happy.

Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for.