Gratitude is a lively sense of benefits to come.

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.

The real winners I've met in life weren't necessarily skilled or perfect. They just had the tenacity to never, ever give up.

What he could bear in the waking world he could not by night and he sat awake for fear the dream would return.

While the man is putting on it's shoes, the woman can buy dozens of high heels.

Forget dice rolling or boxes of chocolates as metaphors for life. Think of yourself as a dreaming robot on autopilot, and you'll be much closer to the truth.

I would prefer not to be living with anyone, really. Like, as much as I care for my special friend, I don't want to live with her.

Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery why we climb.

I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.

Anyone who puts a small gloss on a fundamental technology, calls it proprietary, and then tries to keep others from building on it, is a thief.