Reason argues the case, but fact may determine the judgment.

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.

Let us trust the power of love.

Kindness is not something you are born with

If you cultivate inner peace, flowers of happiness will grow in your garden to spread the fragrance of peace all over the world.

Clever wives are mostly silent, alert and pay equal attention to limiting the kind and degree of emotions of family which creates and destroy HOMES.

I'm here because I was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else, but I don't know about you.

The spiritual warrior hides from nothing. We jump into the fire, we dive into the ocean. We become the sea.

For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the Calvinist.

Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!

When you see yourself doing something badly and nobody's bothering to tell you anymore, that's a very bad place to be. Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care.

There been times when I thought I couldn't last for long But now I think I'm able to carry on It's been a long, been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will