Death, like the sun, cannot be looked at steadily.

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.

Dylan Jerome, " the lawyer admits, "wanted to sue God for not caring enough about him.

Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.

Any man that dates me, the thing they're gonna have to live up is my dad - he's a real hero.

We also call for a freeze on the bank accounts of those countries, including our allies, with due warning.

If an innovative piece of software comes along, Microsoft copies it and makes it part of Windows. This is not innovation; this is the end of innovation.

We have not seen great things done in our time except by those who have been considered mean; the rest have failed.

This would have been a great game to watch if we didn't have any money on it.

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

Mozart is everyone's tea, pleasing to highbrows, middlebrows and lowbrows alike, though they probably all get different kinds of pleasure from him.

America is deeply rooted in Negro culture: its colloquialisms; its humor; its music.