Why can we remember the tiniest detail that has happened to us, and not remember how many times we have told it to the same person.

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.

She doesn't recognize the number—none of her friends use their phones as phones anymore.

There is no economic law that says that everyone, or even most people, automatically benefit from technological progress.

Before a race, I block out what's going on in the stadium. It's different for everyone. But for me, I've always been able to block it out. For a sprint race, it's important not to get distracted.

There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here.

To be alone as a pioneerlike we were, was difficult. My strategy was not only to help the people, or transform the world, but to do both

I don't know how to write without thinking what people would want. You don't know whether they want you to be black or white, so you kind of get a gray, something in the middle.

The EU project is to create a country called Europe.

Many of our troubles are due to the fact that our people turn to politicians for everything.

Bin Laden is not well read and he's not sophisticated, but he will have worked out very coldly what America would do.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.