Perhaps fortunately, no one has ever found out what it would be like to have all his wishes fulfilled.

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.

Dani said this woman, with whom she’d lived for two years, had never known her. “I feel like people accept the first thing I show them, ” she said, “and that’s all I ever am to them.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

What you need to know is very little, but to know that little takes very very much.

Life happens from within. How aware you are of it, decides the quality of your body, your mind, and your experience of life.

To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing - here is the perfection of character.

Yes, I have played a blitz game once. It was on a train, in 1929.

Though we are involved in social work, our goal is to be contemplatives at the heart of the world. We are with Jesus twenty-four hours a day. We do everything for Jesus. We do it all unto Jesus.

For the most part, I don't care about what everyone else is doing, or what is popular.

One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.