My neglected duties crowd around me in my dreams, murmuring.

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.

But miracles do happen, every shining now and then. If not now, if not now, tell me when. From "If Not Now

One of the Great Rules of Economics According to John GreenIf you are rich, you have to be an idiot not to stay rich. And if you are poor, you have to be really smart to get rich.

Remember sixteen – when all the world was new and a lifetime stretched before you like fresh snow just waiting for your footprints?

I like to walk around with bare feet and I don't like to comb my hair.

Just relief of trying to get there for eight years. It's finally here and I'm very excited. It's just great. It's been a long ride.

Heaven is a place of restless activity, the abode of never-tiring thought.

Sometimes I think the human heart is just a simple shelf. There is only so much you can pile onto it before something falls off an edge and you are left to pick up the pieces.

Let's save tomorrow's troubles for tomorrow.

If we take the route of the permanent handout, the American character will itself be impoverished.

We are not born to survive. Only to live.