Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

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.

Expression is the dress of thought, and still Appears more decent as more suitable; A vile conceit in pompous words express'd, Is like a clown in regal purple dress'd.

My mom says you only need three people you can rely on to achieve self-actualization.

The conventional notions of art have changed, and a lot of things done today are considered works of art that would have been rejected in the past.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be.

A fine picture is but the image of nature; a finished ballet is nature herself.

I always find that I have to be emotionally on my character's side for it to be convincing.

When it comes to health and well-being, regular exercise is about as close to a magic potion as you can get.

Remarkable visions and genuine insights are always met with resistance.

Humility is my table, respect is my garment, empathy is my food and curiosity is my drink. As for love, it has a thousand names and is by my side at every window.

It's not enough to have the right answers. You have to have the right questions.