Whatever distrust we may have of the sincerity of those who converse with us, we always believe they will tell us more truth than they do to others.

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.

A positive attitude will not only make you more fun to be around, but it will bring more happiness and joy both into your life and the lives of those around you.

How is it possible, I think, to change so much and not be able to change anything at all?

The fact is I don't drive just to get from A to B. I enjoy feeling the car's reactions, becoming part of it.

Can't we all just play nicely and leave the playground the way we found it, clean and safe?

People don't realize, or maybe they've forgotten, that there was a time in history when standup comedy wasn't something that you had to hide your kids' ears from.

[Donald] Trump seems to be begging for a fight or is it begging for a distraction?

The past couple years training with Kurt have really brought inspiration into my skating.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

Having great clients is the key to investment success.

What you want most out of life is the thing you have to give the most of