Theory can leave questions unanswered, but practice has to come up with something.

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.

Jesus never says to the poor: ‘come find the church’, but he says to those of us in the church: ‘go into the world and find the poor, hungry, homeless, imprisoned.

It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word.

If you're going to play a champion athlete, people expect you to look a certain way, and you also have to have the stamina to be able to continue to perform.

The other thing is surrounding yourself with people that care for you. These are simple things, but they're powerful, and they've completely transformed who I am and how I perceive myself.

Destroying green belt agricultural land for immediate economic gain is like burning your children's inheritance to cook a single meal

We can not lead an organization, we can run an organization. We can only lead people.

The Doctor: I've seen bigger. Clara: Really? The Doctor: Are you joking? It's massive!

The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.