To establish yourself in the world a person must do all they can to appear already established.

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.

A Controlled Mind Can Create All That It Words...!

You can put all your eggs in one basket if God has told you to.

What is the proper limit for wealth? It is first to have what is necessary and second to have what is enough.

The only way to have a life is to commit to it like crazy.

I directed the first "Twilight" movie. It was in my contract that I could have gone on to do the other films, but I didn't feel as connected to the other books.

Everyone wants to shine bright like a diamond, but no one wants to get cut.

When I turn up at a trendy party, all the youngsters look like they could be my illegitimate love children.

Ill try the whole cause, and condemn you to death.

Some people prefer eating dessert to the main course. These people have never been really hungry.