Proverbial wisdom counsels against risk and change. But sitting ducks fare worst of all.

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.

Don’t marry him. Don’t be with him. Be with me.

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areasit has never been before!

When a person, yielding to God and believing the truth of God, is filled with the Spirit of God, even his faintest whisper will be worship.

I think the first and most important thing is that you've got to have a goal and a vision.

You never see a man walking down the street with a woman who has a little potbelly and a bald spot.

Religion and political expediency go beautifully hand in hand

I wake up in the morning asking myself what can I do today, how can I help the world today.

It's heartbreaking that so many hundreds of millions of people around the world are desperate for the right to vote, but here in America people stay home on election day.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.

In a broken marriage, it can be challenging and tough to get that work/life balance. I love performing but I also love being a mum, and I hate having to choose between them.