Vacations prove that a life of pleasure is overrated.

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.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

The national oil companies still want to acquire some expertise so they will outsource more, but not totally.

Okay. So, apparently I find burly Indian men attractive. What's wrong with that?

When science and the Bible differ, science has obviously misinterpreted its data.

Do not wonder why you are blessed with so much, just understand you have so much so you can help other people have as much as you.

It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.

Women will not talk about football unless one of them is in love with a football player, and then suddenly you discover that they know everything that is to be known about it.

The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.

In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have not all participated in one culture.