The main function of the museum has been to serve as a pedestal upon which a clique of socialites pose as patrons of the arts

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is a house of artistic and intellectual prostitution

Living with and studying good paintings offers greater interest, variety and satisfaction than any other pleasure known to man.

Philadelphia is a depressing intellectual slum

In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).

...it was amazing, wasn't it, how bad you could hurt when there was nothing physically wrong.

Did you ever stop to think that even if I am a monster, I might be your soulmate anyway?

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

Repetition makes reputation.

I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to... I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

In our family we have always had, and still have, this understanding: the problem of each member of the family is everybody's problem.

When feminism falls short of our expectations, we decide the problem is with feminism rather than with the flawed people who act in the name of the movement.

I want to be indifferent to vengeance. It's degrading. Not having a spirit of vengeance protects me, internally.

It may be that my most helpful contributions to music aren't my compact discs but my articles about other great singers of the past for American Heritage magazine.