While there's life, there's fear.

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.

Scripture was given to the church, and theology is a necessary work of the church, by the church, in the church, and for the church.

Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk.

Every child should have a chance to feel special.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

As reforms have come into India, as India has started opening up, prosperity is increasing, as is demand for urban housing.

You'd find it easier to be bad than good if you had red hair," said Anne reproachfully. "People who haven't red hair don't know what trouble is.

You cannot give up on the American dream. We cannot allow our fears and our disappointments to lead us into silence and into inaction.

In the year 1866, I discovered the Christ Science or divine laws of Life, Truth, and Love, and named my discovery Christian Science

And, as Stevie Rae would have said, Kalona was as wrong as manboobs.

Dreams are difficult to build and easy to destroy.