Innocence is lucky if it finds the same protection as guilt

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.

Let your heart shine even more than your face. The beautiful contents of your heart can never be forgotten, but your face will be a history.

How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?

Music is the greatest communication in the world. Even if people don't understand the language that you're singing in, they still know good music when they hear it.

Let's worry about fixing the problem instead of the blame.

Mike Nichols asked if I would do The Birdcage. Mike and I are dear friends but he had never offered me a feature role in a movie. My television career opened other doors for me

There is no dignity like the dignity of a soul in agony.

Angelic happiness is in service, from service, and according to service.

Our father died when we were very young, so our mother raised six kids. We saw the world filtered through her eyes, being a minority woman raising six kids.

I must be the luckiest man in the world. Not only am I bisexual, I am also Welsh.

But I’m living proof you don’t have to spend a lot in order to look great.