Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

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.

At leadership levels, consider choosing your managers as much as the role. Your success is closely linked to how you manage this relationship strategically!

Creativity is not a gift, it’s a mindset that you practice

Aim high flyReach deep rootsStretch out growBeyond and belowAbove and behindAll about and inThe awesomenessSings

most people come to know only one corner of their room, one spot near the window, one narrow strip on which they keep walking back and forth.

The vitriol and viciousness is the inevitable result of a government increasingly deciding the vital aspects of people's lives.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Technically, Windows is an "operating system," which means that it supplies your computer with the basic commands that it needs to suddenly, with no warning whatsoever, stop operating.

Painting is an attempt to come to terms with life. There are as many solutions as there are human beings

Fact is richer than diction.

Be careful. Everything you say, every single day, may be recorded in your students’ hearts forever.