Women know not the whole of their coquetry.

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.

Darkness never lasts forever. Morning always comes with the lights of love to brighten our future.

Do what is right for the right reasons.

What makes movies magical is not that incredible things happen in them. Incredible things happen in real life. No, what makes movies magical is they end right after the incredible thing happens.

Yet there's a hunger in me still. I'm like only beginning. I feel like I still have so much to learn.

Learn to think for yourself, unless of course you can identify someone else with better judgement, and a flashlight.

For me [Patriarchs] exist. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob exist today. They are people that you see with white beards. I have no doubt of their existence.

It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.

Yeah, I did a cameo in an upcoming movie called Constantine.

It’s not about what we do, or what we feel, it’s about what He did and what He felt. It’s about what Christ has done for us.

I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life.