Watch me, diamonds shining looking like I robbed Liberace.
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world.
Whatever class and race divergences exist, top cats are tom cats.
We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.
We are in a double bind. We are expected to feel inferior not only as women, but because we are old.
Power is the ability not to have to please.
Just as your hand, held before the eye, can hide the tallest mountain, so this small earthly life keeps us from seeing the vast radiance that fills the core of the universe.
I had long since insisted upon interpreting the things that Fate forced me to do as victories of my own will and intelligence, and now this bad habit had grown into a sort of frenzied arrogance. In the nature of what I was calling my intelligence there was a touch of something illegitimate, a touch of the sham pretender who has been placed on the throne by some freak chance. This dolt of a usurper could not foresee the revenge that would inevitably be wreaked upon his stupid despotism.
The photographer is filled with doubt. Nothing will soothe him.
Godliness is the fragrance of the man who has attained enlightenment.