The most beautiful man in the world says everything with his eyes, and the rest with his hands and mouth.

Take up something that you know will never bring you any returns except pleasure-in other words, allow yourself to live the way brilliant eighteenth century courtesans lived. Don't be afraid of having a decorative life, even if all the decorations come from you.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Oscar Wilde said that the gods punish us in two ways: first, they don't give us what we want, then, they do. He forgot the third way: we finally see the cost of getting it.

Eat without the TV going on. Learn to appreciate food with only the entertainment of conversation-yours and someone else's.

Clothes do not make the man; friends and engagement with life do.

If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to run their hands over the choice parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.