We have more indolence in the mind than in the body.

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.

An anomaly has his own ambitions. You can try reasoning with him, but that's like using money to bribe a beast.

Sir, I am no sycophant or worshipper of power anywhere.

Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts

When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.

If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.

Dying is to be avoided because it can ruin your whole career.

You are never as smart as you look when you win and you are never as dumb as you look as you lose.

Ere the dolphin dies Its hues are brightest. Like an infant's breath Are tropic winds before the voice of death.

When no one is selfless in a relationship, there is war. When one is selfless, there is peace. When both are selfless, there is joy.

As iron cast into fire loses its rust and becomes glowing white, so he who turns completely to God is stripped of his sluggishness and changed into a new man.