Reality is the name we give to our disappointments.

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.

If you can't get what you want, you end up doing something else, just to get some relief. Just to keep from going crazy. Because when you're sad enough, you look for ways to fill you up.

The good thing about problems is that it seems like there's only one way to get into them, but there's usually lots of ways out.

Saints of the early church reaped great harvests in the field of prayer and found the mercy seat to be a mine of untold treasures.

I am conscious of having served England as I served my own country.

Art in America has always been regarded as a luxury.

My language is what I use, and if I lost that, I wouldnt be able to say anything.

Why is the King of Hearts the only one that hasn't a moustache?

As students I am sure you have several dreams. If you are determined to move ahead nothing can stop you. Our youth are talented.

Unless you really stand for something, people aren't motivated to go out and vote for you.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.