We are never so happy or so unhappy as we think.

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.

Millions of successful people on earth were once big time failures who tried few times again.

Perfection is ordinary

Words are just words. The evidence is in how you act, how you react.

Fame is a jealous mistressAnd will brook no rival.

God is all powerful.God is mighty.God is has power over all rulers and authorities.

The clear-sighted do not rule the world, but they sustain and console it.

Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents.

the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance.

Always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty.

I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.