Boast quietly, with decorum.

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.

Life is a book. We fill the pages.

Have compassion for people as long as you are one of them too.

You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.

Americans should be free to recognize our religious heritage doing that is not the same as creating a government-sponsored religion.

Not on the stage alone, in the world also, a man's real character comes out best in his asides.

Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

The man who has truly believed in his heart ... his life will be marked by a biblical confession of Christ in word and deed.

If you focus completely on the things you love, then you are on your way to a beautiful life.

And here in America rival newspapermen attack each other on sight?

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.