Why is it forbidden in New York to acknowledge the charm and beauty of Los Angeles?

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.

Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.

Your body exists in the past and your mind exists in the future. In yoga, they come together in the present.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

The step of obedience always precedes revelation. That pattern is evident all through the Scripture.

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.

Music, it requires more than brawn. It requires a lot of heart. You gotta put love in there.

She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold even in the summer of her age.

They've promised that dreams can come true - but forgot to mention that nightmares are dreams, too.

People don't have to like or support you. So you always have to say thank you.

Love is counting someone else’s needs and interests as more important than your own needs or interests or comfort.