Women can more easily conquer their passion than their coquetterie.

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.

You've got to know what your magic is. How else will you fully share your gifts with others and enrich the world for these precious years that you live?

A thinking mind returns to its subject.

The Army confronted racial integration when it was still unpopular in society. It has been struggling to more fully integrate women. Its troops, after all, reflect society.

LOVE WHAT YOU DO! Whatever that is, put your entire heart & soul into it, or don't do it at all.

However tight I shut my eyes, there will always be a stray dog somewhere in the world who'll stop me being happy.

The Commission on Presidential Debates must be replaced if we want to have a democracy in this country.

I'm the last of the mad ones.

Seeing Syria remove Assad is a very high priority for America.

I don't want to sit and cry for an hour in a movie. I'd rather have an action or a comedy.

A generous action is its own reward.