When the soul is ruffled by the remains of one passion, it is more disposed to entertain a new one than when it is entirely curedand at rest from 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.

Keep doing what you're doing and you'll keep getting what you're getting.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Brown bird welcomes white wave. Wander no more, dear traveler.

And I think that when I finally decided to let go and let God and allow that to happen, I became a lot more successful than I could have done if I had planned it all myself.

I think we impress people by our success, but I think we impact them by our failures.

An artist's studio should be a small space because small rooms discipline the mind and large ones distract it.

Fear is like fire; it can be helpful if you know how to use. If not, you'll get burned.

Body and soul need new challenges.

Instead of seeking success we should look for fulfillment. And fulfillment is giving total attention to the process of living.

I get quiet joy from the observation of anyone who does his job well.