We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

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.

No one could teach you to be you... until now!

To understand the universe around us, we must understand the universe within us.

For the most part, the best opportunities now lie where your competitors have yet to establish themselves, not where they're already entrenched. Microsoft is struggling to adapt to that new reality.

Solitude was her anchor. A familiar misery, and anymore the safest, most sensible approach.

Better to be a diamond in the rough, than a polished fake in denial.

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.

People call me a bedroom electronic musician, which I suppose I am. But I hate most electronic music; I find it really boring.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

The gospel doesn't make bad people good, it makes dead people alive.