A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

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.

Nothing is tough but your skull so think out of the skull box and let the thoughts fly.

What will make you great today will never make you great tomorrow! The airplane that Wilbur and Orville Wright invented in 1906 would be seen as a scrap today. It becomes valueless with time.

I would appeal to Philip she said but to Philip sober.

Let the sky fall, when it crumbles - We will stand tall - Face it all together

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal, for the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it exists forever.

We don't want our players to be monks. We want them to be better football players because a monk doesn't play football at this level.

A star may guarantee business, but the tradeoff is a very short run.

Only the autodidacts are free.

Being a superstar means you've reached your potential, and I don't think I've reached my potential as a basketball player and as a leader yet.