Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love.

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.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do the best.

He was one of those men who possess almost every gift except the gift of the power to use them.

Even the toughest guys are afraid to be anything outside of the toughest guys.

To be extraordinarily happy and to have no concern for money drives some people nuts.

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

When we went into the ocean, I watched his body as he dove into the waves, and it gave me a feeling in my stomach that wasn't an ache but something different.

Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves.

Most of us do not even know how to ask a question. Most of us do not see the root of the word 'question' is 'quest'. Most of us don't have a quest in our life.

You don't get lower ratings playing the villain on reality TV.