When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

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.

Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?”“That is the only time a man can be brave,

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

The desire to be connected with the cosmos reflects a profound reality, but we are connected; not in the trivial ways that astrology promises, but in the deepest ways.

The first five times that you bang someone and the last million times are two different worlds.

In Hawaii they say, "aloha." That's a nice one, It means both "hello" and "good-bye" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going.

Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that.

I think sometimes, you have to pick your spots about when a game gets intense or when the game's outcome is pivoting in that moment.

I'm not really good at skiing or snowboarding, or swimming, per se.