A well-paid occupation is seldom spoken of as "rewarding.

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.

Knowledge will bring you the opportunity to make a difference.

The mind is a thing capable of destroying itself when deep grief sets in, and when left alone to muse over one’s misery, the most irreparable damage can be done. You need people to heal.

He put his arms about himself as if he were cold. "I do not know who to be without him.

Gratuitous cruelty borders on the pathological, psychotic and that becomes uninteresting because there is no choice.

The key is: never fold.

Not even the Emerald Isle itself was as green as the grass that grew in Ebbets Field.

He that loveth God will do diligence to please God by his works, and abandon himself, with all his might, well for to do.

A Christian has a union with Jesus Christ more noble, more intimate and more perfect than the members of a human body have with their head.

Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.