We can never be certain of our courage until we have faced danger.

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.

But leave us some magic in the world. Leave us some mystery to enjoy.

God knows both your name and address. When the right man comes along God will lead him to your door. And that man will recognize your name.

I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.

Sometimes you have this tragedy which turns into an incredible opportunity.

Her days come and go like birds, her dreams like days.

One of the most widespread diseases is diagnosis.

Doing stuff that I don't have to talk about because I'm not in a public company is fantastic.

I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to governors.

I'm such a sap for democracy and politics that I get weepy when I see anybody voting.

Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves.