Self-esteem is not based on itself.

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.

You can't hammer in a nail with words...""No, but you can start a war with them.

Thinking is the most overrated human activity.

Each life has its share of heroism, an obscure heroism, born of abdication, of renunciation and acceptance under the merciless whip of fate.

Many go to great lengths to discover God's will or to hear His voice, yet we only need to open His Book.

I've always been obsessed with tigers, I love white tigers I think they're very glamourous in a weird way.

Health has its science, as well as disease.

I have always been fully persuaded that, through co-operation, labor could become its own employer.

No matter what the Constitution says, it won't endure if the people don't closely read it and demand that it be followed.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I have with me all that I do not knowI have lost none of it.