We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.

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.

Cultural heritage define the uniqueness of individuals. Appreciate cultural diversity.

God the first garden made and the first city Cain.

I lend people money, but I'd never lend something that would jeopardise a friendship if I didn't get it back.

Whether we call it a job or a career, work is more than just something we do. It is a part of who we are.

The sea hates a coward.

Make a conscious effort to surround yourself with positive, nourishing, and uplifting people -- people who believe in you, encourage you to go after your dreams, and applaud your victories.

All I have is this guitar, these chords and the truth.

Well, my dear, take heart. Some day, I will kiss you and you will like it. But not now, so I beg you not to be too impatient.

All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm.

Meet the disorder in the outset, the medicine may be too late, when the disease has gained ground through delay.