Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.

Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

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.

More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

Old is authentic. Old is genuine. Old is valuable.

He had but one eye, and the popular prejudice runs in favor of two.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another.

The hardest thing to see is what is in front of your eyes.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.

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

My lips, I’ve used collagen. I line my lips with collagen.

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That’s the way the mind of man operates.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is ‚naive‘ spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of ‚bonsai.‘

Things ain’t what they used to be and never were.

Only the ideas that we really live have any value.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Some people would claim that things like love, joy and beauty belong to a different category from science and can’t be described in scientific terms, but I think they can now be explained by the theory of evolution.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

As far as the general public is concerned, I always tell people that you need to look like a dance teacher like you’re looking for a pediatrician.

If my mother knew I did this for a living, she’d kill me. She thinks I’m selling dope.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

There may not be one Truth – there may be several truths – but saying that is not to say that reality doesn’t exist.

No traveler, whether a tree lover or not, will ever forget his first walk in a sugar-pine forest. The majestic crowns approaching one another make a glorious canopy, through the feathery arches of which the sunbeams pour, silvering the needles and gilding the stately columns and the ground into a scene of enchantment.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

No matter how beautiful a woman might be, you’re always threatened by certain… You’re always threatened by other women, period.

We tend to mistake music for the physical object.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft.

The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

Most people wouldn’t know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner is a thing brought to sight than it is swept by and another takes its place, and this too will be swept away.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

People are not disturbed by things, but by the view they take of them.

I’ve lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.

It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.

The true worth of a man is not to be found in man himself, but in the colours and textures that come alive in others.

In too many communities, too many young men of color are left behind and seen only as objects of fear. Through initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper, I’m personally committed to changing both perception and reality.

Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

What is my life if I am no longer useful to others.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

I have to be seen to be believed.