Why do we never expect dull people to be rascals?

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.

In order to create light you must first live in light.

Earth’s troubles fade in the light of heaven’s hope.

Don't write your child's pages. Turn them with love.

Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.

My life is very monotonous," the fox said. "I hunt chickens; men hunt me. All the chickens are just alike, and all the men are just alike. And, in consequence, I am a little bored.

I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

Ethiopians, that is, Negroes, gave the world the first idea of right and wrong and thus laid the basis of religion and all true culture and civilization.

I know what it's like to be shoveling to pay bills. I know what it's like to not have a job.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

We must work to reshape the need for our children to want to live so fast even if it means dying too young.