We give advice but we do not inspire conduct.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

Your journey might seem very long and hard, but bear in mind that sooner or later your struggles would become the past, and your rewards would become the present.

Man lives by habits indeed but what he lives for is thrill and excitements. ... From time immemorial war has been ... the supremely thrilling excitement.

The average investor's return is significantly lower than market indices due primarily to market timing.

Playing Bill Clinton is really, probably, the scariest time of my career.

Many a genius has been slow of growth. Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

To put more faith in lies and hate than truth and love, is the true atheism.

Yeah, I'm scared. I'm scared I might kill Schmeling.

Give paint a chance to show itself entirely as paint.

I'm concealing a lot of things. That's what a lady does.

If mankind had wished for what is right, they might have had it long ago.