One kind of happiness is to know exactly at what point to be miserable.

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.

Leaders don't climb hills of success with shoes of pride. They are slippery enough to bring a person down to the valley.

If you listen to many wise sayings, you will develop a strong-mind

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

What we have here is a failure to communicate.

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

I have spoken to expert audiences occasionally, but then no audience is expert over the whole range of things I want to explore.

There are a number of contemporary playwrights whom I admire enormously, but that's not at all the same thing as being influenced.

Additionally, any Human Rights Council reform that allows countries with despicable human rights records to remain as members, such as China and Saudi Arabia, is not real reform.

The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

Nobody even imagines how well one can lie about the state of one’s own heart.