We pardon to the extent that we love.

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.

Songs live longer than kingdoms.

The body is reached through the spirit. First you have to heal the soul. Then you can work on the body.

Understanding comes out of immense love, which is harder to get in life.

There's a definite responsibility that comes with being famous. You shouldn't be able to just dress up and look pretty.

You can't catch the big fish by skimming the surface.

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

Zaandam has enough to paint for a lifetime.

Only the history of free peoples is worth our attention; the history of men under a despotism is merely a collection of anecdotes.

Photographers, it is true, do not work but they do do something: They create, process, and store symbols.

O momentary grace of mortal men, Which we more hunt for than the grace of God!