Envy is more incapable of reconciliation than hatred is.

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.

You need to find your gift, something you are doing better than others

The minute you think you have the right to belittle others because you think you’re better than them is the same minute you’ve proven you’re worse.

Although an act of help done timely, might be small in nature, it is truly larger than the world itself.

So I'm definitely in favour of stimulating the dynamic wealth creation sectors of the economy.

The water is calm, but the currents pull beneath the surface. Though they can’t be seen, they have the power to drag cats to their deaths.

Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears.

The U.S. - E.U. economic relationship dwarfs America's economic ties with China.

Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.

It's easier to crush a dream than realize one, forming a bond is infinitely more difficult than breaking one

Generally I don't listen to sad songs if I'm sad. I listen to happy songs.