Taste may change, but inclination never.

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.

Satan knows, if you are against YOURSELF you will never fulfill your destiny. :(

Just watch this moment, without trying to change it at all. What is happening? What do you feel? What do you see? What do you hear?

Poets create gods, philosophers destroy them.

The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.

You can cheat an honest man but not make a fool out of him.

Better to live dreaming, than dream of living.

It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

Samples are kind of my instrument of choice.

Demoniac frenzy, moping melancholy.

To bring one's self to believe in a truth that has just dawned upon one is the first step towards progress; to persuade others is the second.