Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

I want to do a certain thing in the world, and I am going to do it with unwavering concentration. I am concerning myself with only one essential thing: to set man free. I desire to free him from all cages, from all fears, and not to found religions, new sects, nor to establish new theories and new philosophies.

Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

The internal machinery of life, the chemistry of the parts, is something beautiful. And it turns out that all life is interconnected with all other life.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

I’m just glad I was able to return to some of that innocence and beauty I had as a child when I started my own family, and my children brought me back some of that spirit.

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

I am not one who – who flamboyantly believes in throwing a lot of words around.

It’s every girl’s dream to be a cover girl!

Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlightenment and comfort at top speed.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns.

Physical elegance, which is what I am talking about here, comes from the body. This is no superficial matter, but rather the way that man found to honour the way he places his two feet on the ground.

I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

Talent grips us. We are overtaken by the beauty of Michelangelo’s sculpture, riveted by Mariah Carey’s angelic voice, doubled over in laughter by the comedy of Robin Williams, and captivated by the on screen performances of Denzel Washington.

I could sing you a thousand and one doo-wop songs. I love the simplicity in that music. It’s not super-poetic, it’s just from the heart.

The beauty of me being on stage is I have a voice.

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.

I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

Of all that is good, sublimity is supreme. Succeeding is the coming together of all that is beautiful. Furtherance is the agreement of all that is just. Perseverance is the foundation of all actions.

There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl’s complexion.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Simplify, simplify.

The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.

It’s always wonderful to get to know women, with the mystery and the joy and the depth. If you can make a woman laugh, you’re seeing the most beautiful thing on God’s Earth.

Whenever something went wrong when I was young – if I had a pimple or if my hair broke – my mom would say, ‚Sister mine, I’m going to make you some soup.‘ And I really thought the soup would make my pimple go away or my hair stronger.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not.

You’re beautiful, like a May fly.

She is a peacock in everything but beauty.

I believe in manicures. I believe in overdressing. I believe in primping at leisure and wearing lipstick. I believe in pink. I believe happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day, and… I believe in miracles.

The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge.

I think dress, hairstyle and make-up are the crucial factors in projecting an attractive persona and give one the chance to enhance one’s best physical features.

I’ll never graduate from collagen.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

A women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future.

Love is the attempt to form a friendship inspired by beauty.

Posture for combat is so vital.

My belief is that we were put into this world of wonders and beauty with a special ability to appreciate them, in some cases to have the fun of taking a hand in developing them, and also in being able to help other people instead of overreaching them and, through it all, to enjoy life – that is, to be happy.

I try not to go around looking like a hag.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God’s handwriting.

Your ability to use the principle of autosuggestion will depend, very largely, upon your capacity to concentrate upon a given desire until that desire becomes a burning obsession.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.