We like to read others but we do not like to be read.

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.

When your safety is in question follow your intuition. It will help you balance along the precipice between vulnerability and adventure.

You will accomplish more by kind words and a courteous manner than by anger or sharp rebuke which should never be used except in necessity.

What people commonly call Fate is, as a general rule, nothing but their own stupid and foolish conduct.

Money is everything in this world to some people, and more than the next to other poor souls.

Ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time.

I look completely like my mum. She's very foreign, very Jewish.

Whoever admits that he is too busy to improve his methods, has acknowledged himself to be at the end of his rope. And that is always the saddest predicament which any one can get into.

Let us not wallow in the valley of despair.

We need more guys that are solid talents all around and Frank Mir proved himself and I don't think anyone is going to second guess him every again.

If I play Coachella, it's sponsored by a company - that's corporate, too. But we're playing it because we're getting paid and we want to be a part of the festival.