There are people who would never have been in love, had they never heard love spoken of.

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 can never grow when you don’t place value on time

Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam

Kindness always works with the most important person — YOU. Be kind for you, not others.

All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose.

The only true law is that which leads to freedom.

There's one argument that says we shouldn't be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you've got to take it case by case.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

Hopefully people hear that a part of what hurts society has a lot to do with the diet, the food that you're eating. So let's be careful.