An imprudent enemy is less dangerous than an imprudent friend.

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.

When it's gone, you'll know what a gift love was. You'll suffer like this. So go back and fight to keep it.

There is a depth to life which only comes from our connection to other people. However, we have to find it without becoming a prisoner.

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

We mustn’t give trouble a shape before it throws its shadow.

There is some reason to believe there is greater safety in this branch of medicine from modest unassuming ignorance than from a meddling presumption which frequently accompanies a little learning.

Eternity does not start after you die; it begins when you really live.

Well, you know, I think the American people are sacrificing now. I think they're waiting in airport lines longer than they've ever had before.

I don't think that women need to smell interesting.

There's forgiveness if you ask forgiveness, you truly repent, and you do make an honest effort not to do that anymore.

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.