True friendship destroys envy, and true love destroys coquetterie.

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.

The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.

A person must claim the meaning behind his or her existence. How we live is our final testament to what we believed in and our journey through the corridor of time determines our decisive character.

Speak it till you reach it!

I'm always interested in learning something new.

History gives you insight of the same quality of truth as poetry or philosophy or a novel.

I bring to my life a certain amount of mess.

A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

They say I look like a different ethnicity, and nobody's been recognizing me.

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.