Whatever pretext we may give for our affections, often it is only interest and vanity which cause them.

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.

Life is a cycle of sadness and joy, Best decision is stop at the point of Happiness .

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.

[In politics,] when there is no reason to speak, there is a reason not to speak.

Seek truth from facts.

What the hell, I paid my dues.

Brotherhood is not just a Bible word. Out of comradeship can come and will come the happy life for all.

The challenge is not just to build a company that can endure; but to build one that is worthy of enduring.

It is like the man who became short-sighted and refused to wear glasses, saying there was nothing wrong with him, but that the trouble was that the recent papers were so badly printed.

Moving to a cooperatively organized enterprise is one of the best ways to really do something about unequal distribution of wealth.

It is the business of a comic poet to paint the vices and follies of human kind.