We have more ability than will power, and it is often an excuse to ourselves that we imagine that things are impossible.

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.

In the journey of success, the only person that has to believe in your dreams is nobody else but yourself.

We don't know how our choices can change the course of our lives until they do. Unfortunately, sometimes it takes tragedy for us to realize it.

The evolution toward Communism is inevitable.

I was sixteen and equipped with the appropriate genitalia, so I cleared that hurdle nicely.

Sport was my absolute love. It was very sporty household. We had my - my brother and I both loved sports.

Everything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.

God will not punish the man Who makes return for an injury.

An IPO is like a negotiated transaction - the seller chooses when to come public - and it's unlikely to be a time that's favourable to you.