There is a sort of love whose very excessiveness prevents the lover's being jealous.

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.

What do you mean "gangsters"? It's business.

When you objectify a person living with dementia, you dehumanize them. Once dehumanized, the person becomes a villain.

I am not promoting Buddhism. I am promoting human values.

Sometimes I just turn on the TV and I'm like, wait a minute, that guy [Donald Trump]? It's incredible that he did all those things and he still won. It's hard to process.

I'm one of those women who likes to chat and share knowledge and pass it around.

I think the latest estimates were that we have about 250,000 millionaires and billionaires. President Obama wants to increase their taxes 13 percent.

God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

I’ve never had any objection to appearing depraved or villainous. But I draw the line at looking like a prize idiot.

The vulgar call good fortune that which really is produced by the calculations of genius.

I really enjoy the therapeutic value of writing songs.