Faith moves mountains but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.

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.

I am who I am, love me If you can, hate me if you want

No human can be preceptor. Only God can be the preceptor. God is one. He is within this human body, and He teaches, guides the man from within. He shows His sportive forms through dreams.

I feel like Obama in a way. His idea that hope means not shrinking from a fight it's the courage to reach for something. My music is that. Those are principles I try to embody.

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible.

If we rejoice in the acts of God without discovering His ways, we'll question who He is when He doesn't do what we've asked.

There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am.

That's the job of the entertainer, to entertain, not to motivate or inspire people to get violent!

Although investors have been concerned with China's slowing growth rate, China remains one of the largest and fastest-growing economies in the world.

There is nothing to do, just be. Do nothing. Be. No climbing mountains and sitting in caves. I do not even say "be yourself" since you do not know yourself. Just be.

It took a while to understand the beauty of just letting go