As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

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.

A great nose may be an indexOf a great soul

In the great glasshouses streaming with condensation, the children in mourning-dress beheld marvels.

None are so blind as those who will not see.

It costs a lot to sue a magazine, and it's too bad that we don't have a system where the losing team has to pay the winning team's lawyers.

The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.

Workers are not being exploited. But if their share of growth doesn't increase, this could be a potential cause of social tension worldwide.

Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time.

I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.

The majority of my work is about preparation.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.