There are heroes of wickedness, as there are of goodness.

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.

You have to write down what you really want to do in this life and then you have to write down what you have to do every day to achieve the goal

You don't have to live by someone else's rules. Do what you want. Be free.

There are few things more discomfiting than a spontaneous outburst of genuine decency from someone you’re determined to dislike for no good reason.

Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.

The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.

In all natural disasters through time, man needs to attach meaning to tragedy, no matter how random and inexplicable the event is.

I don't like men. They're saying they're going to bash my head in.

Yes, Doctor. I'll do what you say. I'll do what you all say.

What we know about God is important, but what we do with what we know about God is even more important.

Worse, I have to admit to feeling the jealousy of one crab for another that has managed to climb out of the barrel.