A man does not please long when he has only species of wit.

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.

The holy lamp is forever burning Holy Bible

Our souls fell in love long before we ever knew.

But they did not chatter much, for the boy, when he liked a person, would as soon sit silent in his company as speak.

And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective and learns more and does more good

Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity.

Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel.

But where do they find these lines in nature? I can only see luminous or obscure masses, planes that advance or planes that recede, reliefs or background. My eye never catches lines or details.

Do not find yourself in the music, but find the music in yourself

It is time for the next generations to continue our struggle against social injustice and for the rights of humanity. It is in your hands.

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.