Procrastination makes easy things hard, hard things harder.

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.

Man is an extremely complex creature: he usually acts in an unselfish manner for selfish reasons.

If you do believe in God, and your first instinct in all things must be gratitude: for creation, or love, for mercy.

All science is a charted ignorance and belongs to Maya.

The House of Representatives should not be locked down by the decided play of a few in leadership.

Every satisfaction he attains lays the seeds of some new desire, so that there is no end to the wishes of each individual will.

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.

I went to the store and bought eight apples; the clerk said, "Do you want these in a bag?" I said, "Oh, no, man, I juggle."

I wouldn't care if he lost both his legs and was in a wheelchair. But it he's having a hard time...Then I won't see him.

A definition is death. A definition is the answer to which you must look up the question in the back of your book.