The Simple Life is not a simple life.

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.

Become great through the currency of time

We must all live so that our children do not have to pay for our deeds.

Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

the point is that there are always answers.

Together, we can help make sure that every family that walks into a restaurant can make an easy, healthy choice.

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

Social sorrow loses half its pain.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.