Nobody likes to offer stupidity as an excuse.

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 I still think that to the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation.

Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable.

Go oft to the house of thy friend for weeds choke the unused path.

I'm not really as cool and collected as 'Mrs. Funnybones', but she is the woman I want to be.

The game women play is men.

Well, you'll have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." (he points to his shirt) "Look. Jammies.

Sometimes, to be silent is to be most eloquent.

...when I accept Christ as my Savior... I am immediately in a new and living relationship with each of the three persons of the Trinity.

You are all things. Denying, rejecting, judging or hiding from any aspect of your total being creates pain and results in a lack of wholeness.

A crisis event often explodes the illusions that anchor our lives.