Some beautiful things are more dazzling when they are still imperfect than when they have been too perfectly crafted.

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.

It seems to me that really crazy people don't think they're crazy. Why would you?

Technique is communication: the two words are synonymous in conductors.

Everyone has love, but it can only come out when he is convinced of the impossibility and the frustration of trying to love himself.

Cooperation and solidarity are necessary requirements in order to bring about the solutions that will once again bring stability to the European integration and bring it back to the track of growth.

I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

I do believe that we should have to - make the voters first; not the donors first.

Why does the left protest and the right doesn't? The left is a hate group.

All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.

He will lift you and guide you. He will not always take your afflictions from you, but He will comfort and lead you with love through whatever storm you face.