Without asceticism, self-indulgence would be insignificant.

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.

We become full human agents, capable of understanding ourselves, and hence of defining our identity, through our acquisition of rich human languages of expression.

Ah! what avails it me the flocks to keep, Who lost my heart while I preserv'd my sheep.

All birds need to fly are the right-shaped wings, the right pressure and the right angle.

Wife-Mother-Actress-Author The world will remember.

I know the whole world is watching now. And I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to get up really high to understand how small you really are. I'm going home now.

I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of.

Chess is something more than a game. It is an intellectual diversion which has certain artistic qualities and many scientific elements.

I'm a horseback rider. I know how to use a whip.

Over the last 30 years there have been a steadily growing number of architects who are returning to traditional and classical principles.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.