Everyone complains of his lack of memory but nobody of his want of judgement.

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.

To eat is a necessity, but to eat intelligently is an art.

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.

Until you have suffered much in your heart, you cannot learn humility.

Feel what it's like to truly starve, and I guarantee that you'll forever think twice before wasting food.

When you get some free time, write. When you get some lazy time, plan. When you get down time, world build. When your time comes, shine!

One should mature over 20 years.

Feelings of anger, bitterness, and hate are negative. If I kept those inside me, they would spoil my body and my health. The are of no use.

Friends, genuine friends, have much more to do with whether we have a warm heart, not money or power.

for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.

I'm in love with the person in the sandwich centre. If she didn't exist I'd have to invent her.

Reclaiming the belly laugh can cure a world of woes.

Of all the sciences, astronomy was the one the superstitious liked least.