Idiots and lunatics see only their own wit.

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.

Sweetheart, my heart is your home, you can always stay there.

If you made a better rat than a human, it’s not much to boast about, Peter.

If we are to be blessed, we must pursue the Giver of blessings.

I’m a Twitter addict. Jose Andres is a serial tweeter. It’s funny to see which chefs have embraced it, and the different paths they take.

That's what it is to love someone: to give whatever you can while taking what you must.

Black Market, like a lot of teams, is a family for me. Just guys that I grew up with that I trust and would do anything for.

I suppose I'm intrigued with the bad traits of society, because I'm a part of society, and the bad traits pose the dangerous questions for our future.

What happens when two people talk? That is really the basic question here, because, that's the basic context in which all persuasion takes place.

If I go 500 at-bats and hit 10 home runs, then something's wrong.