When understanding would be too difficult, I become trusting.

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.

Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

History was once the future, the future will create history.

And you who seek to know me, know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not, unless you know the Mystery:For if that which you seek, you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

I believe people change. I think that they can learn from mistakes.

People who expect deference resent mere civility.

I love good comedy. I don't like bad comedy. Of course, nobody loves bad comedy, but there's a lot of bad comedy out there.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting.

People always say 'Motivation is great but it doesn't last.' I just tell them, bathing does not last either, that is why I recommend it daily.