A restaurant with candles and flowers evokes more reveries than the Isle of Bali does.

Pain narrows consciousness; pleasure blurs it.

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows.

My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth

The sewing machine joins what the scissors have cut asunder, plus whatever else comes in its path.

Clothes make a statement. Costumes tell a story.

The laughter of the aphorism is sometimes triumphant, but seldom carefree.

'Be faithful to your roots' is the liberal version of 'Stay in your ghetto.'

Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.

Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.

Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world.

Asking 'why' only makes us feel hopeless. Asking 'how' points the way forward, and shows us what we must do

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

Sung Win smiled to himself, enjoying the tension across his shoulders and the way his pulse beat in his veins. All life involved risk.

God does not redeem the personal man by death. He redeems himself by freeing himself from the personality of man.

Training is bad for you! Training followed by rest and proper nutrition is good for you and will make you better prepared for the event you are training for.

Death for the Christian is a turning off the light because the dawn has come.

Christianity has in fact long vanished, not only from the reason but also from the life of mankind, and it is nothing more than a fixed idea.

I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face

A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.