There is real love just as there are real ghosts; every person speaks of it, few persons have seen it.

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.

We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.

[T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last.

Music is an incitement to love.

I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism.

I believe the people should have the opportunity to have a greater influence on politics with their ideas. We need a new impulse for renewal.

One of the weird things about L.A. is that there's always a set of negative perceptions that attaches itself to this city.

So Pakistan is a country that I'm very fond of and have spent a lot of time, but it is a country where conspiracy theories have a life of their own.

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