We would rather speak ill of ourselves than not talk about ourselves at all.

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.

Books and school are great for learning but there is no substitute for life and living to provide a real education.

You can't learn in school what the world is going to do next year.

Pinecones. Little works of art. Prickly. Reminders of fall. Similar to pineapples. A sign of welcome.

Great spirit, Great soul.

I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back. ...

Why is there so much month left at the end of the money?

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.

People are more likely to believe a big lie than a small one.

The clamours of spring are the same old delicate noises, The earth renews its magical youth at a breath.

I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.