The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind.

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.

When my hands can no longer make these hammers and strings play for you, my heart will always sing to you.

The news is not about news anymore. It's about protecting some people, destroying others and shoving a socialist agenda down the collective throats of America.

Maybe the most annoying questions is: "Where do you see yourself in so many years?" It's a terrifying answer no matter how you think of it.

Let your Christianity be so unmistakable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are, and whom you serve.

We have not begun to understand the relationship between combinatorics and conceptual mathematics.

In choosing your god, you choose your way of looking at the universe. There are plenty of Gods. Choose yours.

The main professional responsibility of a person in business is business.

Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion.

You can kill a thousand; you can bring an end to life; you cannot kill an idea.

Clearly the person who accepts the Church as an infallible guide will believe whatever the Church teaches.