There are two things in life that money cannot buy: health and happiness. Aside from that, it does an excellent job.

The god that you dispense with today, will come back as a demon tomorrow.

Falling in love with another man is like falling into a vast vat of yourself. For some men this is ultimately nourishing, for others . . . it is drowning.

Wanting someone so much that his very presence takes your breath away is one of the most thrilling happenings in life. Not getting him in no way diminishes this.

Learn to detest things that do not allow you to be yourself, and embrace things that make that self larger, more thrilling, and voluptuous.

Still water does not only run deep. It runs dangerously.

Try to dwell on the people you'd like to love, instead of all the people you do loathe.

There are certain restaurants where you should photograph the food rather than eat it. These are great places to bring a narcissistic boyfriend before you break up.

Learn the absolute pleasure of kindness.

I prefer the "tackiest" person in the world to the stylish person who has no tact.

Hold the door for an old man. Old ladies can take care of themselves; they've been doing it long enough.

We are saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth of Christ Jesus, Son of God.

I am for the largest liberty for the poor man -- for the oppressed.

Conducting has more to do with singing and breathing than with piano-playing.

Know someone you hate? Give their kid a kazoo!

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

From there, I tried out for a community theatre play, joined an improv group... it all started opening up.

Truth is to be used as a scalpel, not a club.

Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

People would cheer throw confetti and then go about breaking the resolutions they had made only moments before.

He who is intoxicated with wine will be sober again in the course of the night, but he who is intoxicated by the cupbearer will not recover his senses until the day of judgement.