Tis more dishonourable to distrust a friend than to be deceived by him.

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.

Weak emperors mean strong viceroys.

If I take care of my character my reputation will take care of itself.

Without hard work and discipline it is difficult to be a top professional.

We still need conservationists who will attempt the impossible, achieving it because they aren't aware how impossible it is.

The media treats fear like a one-night stand. They jump on it and then they leave the next day and they forget - remember the Alar Scare? Things - see, nobody even remembers Alar.

Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.

I believe that mankind's destiny lies in the stars.

I have fans from different cultures coming up to me saying that they don't understand what I'm singing but that they like the music.

Isolationism is over.

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as bad (or as good) as one feared it was going to be.