Beggars remind us that not all miseries arise from our ideas.

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.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

If we put faith in Christ Jesus, we are justified by faith in Christ.

As education becomes inclusive, introspective, cosmic, promoting whole populations to power and privilege, it enthrones a vast, invisible, personal rule over the common mind.

I have noticed this, that when a man is full of the Holy Ghost he is the very last man to be complaining of other people.

I think the most important thing to realize about play is that it's this thing that's in stuff, it's not in you.

I'm not a 21-year-old angsty self-destructive rapscallion anymore.

Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.

Life is a marvelous, transitory adventure.

Two per cent. is genius, and ninety-eight per cent. is hard work.