To win hearts, smile kindly on people's weaknesses.

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.

Water is soft and humble, but it is the most powerful and is the most endurable.

Are they even capable of love?

I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump.

A hundred suspicions don't make a proof.

The Lord is going to keep His people informed if they will listen.

Being snarky and smug doesn't equate to providing insight, and there's more than one occasion when the filmmakers lose sight of this in their zeal to spread the Gospel According to Maher.

Rock 'n' roll music is what gets me off.

I see the universe as naturally and infinitely self-correcting.

But if Christians don’t get Jesus right, what chance is there that other people will bother much with him?

Design exists to serve some purpose.