Bodily labor alleviates the pains of the mind and from this arises the happiness of the poor

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.

It is now certain that the public does know. It is not so certain that the public does care.

Europeans don't like to talk about intelligence, and they often pretend their countries don't spy.

There are no friends at cards or world politics

Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

I keep telling Ron Lorman and them in the control room, "It's my band! The reason I have a band is because I can't stand for somebody to tell me what to do."

For the sake of peace, religious beliefs must never be allowed to be abused in the cause of violence and war.

The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth.

Magic exists if you allow it. If you open yourself up to it.

The man who doesn’t make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasure in life.

If the hoods don't get you, the monoxide will.