Universal truths have become an embarrassment, but they won't quite go away.

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.

Men come and go, but best friends are irreplaceable.

There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future.

When I think about who influenced my life the most as a Leader, I think of my Mother. She, more than anyone, taught me how to lead with love.

The living expression of the nation is the collective consciousness in motion of the entire people.

I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard.

I Once wrote: "In mathematics process and result are equivalent."

When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete.

So every day So every day I was surrounded by the beautiful crying forth of the ideas of God, one of which was you.