Kissing don't last: cookery do !

The season of love is the carnival of egoism and it brings a touchstone to our natures.

Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.

A witty woman is a treasure; a witty beauty is a power.

There is nothing the body suffers which the soul may not profit by.

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

Caricature is rough truth.

Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.

Lovely are the curves of the white owl sweeping Wavy in the dusk lit by one large star. Lone on the fir-branch, his rattle-note unvaried, Brooding o'er the gloom, spins the brown eve-jar.

We are betrayed by what is false within

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

I'm such a geek, and have always been a real nerd.

It is not in Montaigne, but in myself, that I find all that I see in him.

My grandma would quote Abraham Lincoln all the time: "Whatever you do in life, be a good one."

In Cuba I have always understood harsh treatment of dissenting voices as stemming from a "siege situation" imposed upon it from outside. And I believe that to a certain extent that is true.

Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.

When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.

My first major role was in a play called Through the Leaves.

Always be kind in your heart, spirit and mind.

In the past quarter century, we exposed biases against other races and called it racism, and we exposed biases against women and called it sexism. Biases against men we call humor.

I don't design clothes for the Queen, but for the people who wave at her as she goes by.