The desire to be significant casts a pall.

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.

Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.

The metaphoric mind includes rationality, linearity, and logic - for it created them. But like some children, the rational mind often seems embarrassed by the presence of its parents.

If you fail to prepare you prepare to fail.

If I knew where I was going, I wouldn't do it. When I can predict or plan it, I don't do it.

I like to do nice things for my grandchildren - like buy them those toys I've always wanted to play with.

Those undeserved joys which come uncalled and make us more pleased than grateful are they that sing.

My parents were gardeners themselves, and perforce they used environmental techniques because it was during the war, and you didn't have the new sorts of chemicals.

How sad it is when someone comes to you looking for Jesus and all they see is you.

Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!