Soup not only warms you and is easy to swallow and to digest, it also creates the illusion in the back of your mind that Mother is there.

Careful grooming may take twenty years off a woman's age, but you can't fool a flight of stairs.

Timing: The alpha and omega of aerialists, jugglers, actors, diplomats, publicists, generals, prizefighters, revolutionists, financiers, dictators, lovers.

In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?

Being in the depths of sadness is just as important an experience as being exuberantly happy.

Morocco: Looks better in films.

one should be afraid of life, not of death.