Before strongly desiring anything, we should look carefully into the happiness of its present owner.

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.

True love is an immortal force.

If we lost everything except for the clothes we stood up in, would we turn to each other and think....How lucky we really were?

Just say what you want to say . . . and say it with all your heart.

I just feel really grateful that I can pursue my dreams and also reach people in ways that I never expected.

Freedoms are not only the primary ends of development, they are also among its principal means.

I no longer look at my life and times in the motion picture industry as my career. I just look at it now as something I like and want to do.

If the world weren't such a beautiful place, we might all turn into cynics

Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all.

And always remember the ultimate truth: life is not about money, it's about emotion.

You're always a child of your time, and you cannot step out of that.