Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

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.

What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.

What surrounds us is what is within us.

We accept the cures, with the promise of future struggles, in defiance of death.

Find what is beautiful in a person and appreciate it. Ignore what is wrong. Everyone has divine beauty but underneath can be a hidden diabolical ego.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

My ambition is handicapped by laziness

Music, the knife without a hilt.

In a household of faith, there is no need to fear or doubt. Choose to live by faith and not fear.

I got an ant farm; them fellas didn't grow sh*t.

To love God, which was a thing far excelling all the cunning that is possible for us in this life to obtain.