Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.

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.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Ego seeks the domination by war, but spirit seeks the peace through love.

Wherever, I am welcome, there is my home.

There aren't nearly enough worldly mansions for the kind folks who deserve them.

I think every young girl at some point in her early life wonders what it's like to be a princess. They like the idea of dressing up and the fun of it.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

There is a reference in Aristotle to a gnat produced by larvae engendered in the slime of vinegar. This must have been Drosophila.

The debt and the deficit is just getting out of control, and the administration is still pumping through billions upon trillions of new spending. That does not grow the economy.

In the spiritual life, he who does not advance goes backwards.

I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.