Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.

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.

Anger kills logical thinking and logical thinking kills anger....the choice is yours

This lack of accurate, trustworthy information about the true cost of any given policy, product, service, or behavior is paralyzing all action.

A Canadian settler hates a tree, regards it as his natural enemy, as something to be destroyed, eradicated, annihilated by all and any means.

I'm honored to shake the hand of a brave Iraqi citizen who had his hand cut off by Saddam Hussein.

So the end may be a long time coming, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have a way of sneaking up on you.

It's been an incredible odyssey to make the journey from a vibrantly healthy person to someone with a chronic illness.

She never quite leaves her children at home, even when she doesn't take them along.

A legislative entrepreneur...doesn't just believe the right things. He's out there trying to make a good idea legislatively viable.

The base of our party is commonsense conservatives.If the Republican Party gets back to that base, I think our party's going to be stronger and there's not going to be a need for a third party.

Ego and conditionings are created by mind, which is a myth.