Beauty is an outward gift, which is seldom despised, except by those to whom it has been refused.

Really, I have to laugh because there was a whole set of stories that made me sound like the Dragon Lady, you know, ‚tough this and tough that.‘ Then there is this business about ‚gooey.‘ The bottom line is I am a pragmatic idealist.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.

The poetry you read has been written for you, each of you – black, white, Hispanic, man, woman, gay, straight.

He that loves to be flattered is worthy o‘ the flatterer.

I’m not really concerned with portraying this tough warrior – I mean, that’s part of my job and I take that very seriously. But I don’t have anything to hide, and I’m not concerned with what people think.

Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.

The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I’m constantly trying to find new ways to get my hair out of my face.

Forgotten is forgiven.

Human nature is not nearly as bad as it has been thought to be.

I was called ‚Dumbo,‘ like the elephant, as a child because I couldn’t understand things at school.

They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

Before ever meeting Priyanka Chopra, I had heard her name coming out of Bollywood and was impressed: she was beautiful, talented, had made nearly 50 movies, earned multiple awards – a massive star.

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth.

And so I would not enforce a law that would reject people and turn them away without giving them a fair and due process to determine if we should give them asylum and refuge.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

I don’t mind making jokes, but I don’t want to look like one.

Perhaps one of the most difficult things for us to do is to choose a notable and joyous dress for men. There would be more joy in life if we were to accustom ourselves to use all the beautiful colours we can in fashioning our own clothes.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts on itself?

Honestly, I could care less about other people’s opinions about me.

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

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

I didn’t think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I’m not put together like the other chaps.

I remember when I was in high school I didn’t have a new dress for each special occasion. The girls would bring the fact to my attention, not always too delicately. The boys, however, never bothered with the subject. They were my friends, not because of the size of my wardrobe but because they liked me.

The earth laughs in flowers.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

I’m ugly.

A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

I believe everyone should have a good death. You know, with your grandchildren around you, a bit of sobbing. Because after all, tears are appropriate on a death bed. And you say goodbye to your loved ones, making certain that one of them has been left behind to look after the shop.

Joy in looking and comprehending is nature’s most beautiful gift.

When somewhat at a distance, I cannot hear the high tones of instruments, voices. In speaking, it is not surprising that there are people who have never noticed it, for as a rule I am absent-minded, and they account for it in that way.

It takes a smart man to play dumb.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Anyone who cannot come to terms with his life while he is alive needs one hand to ward off a little his despair over his fate… but with his other hand he can note down what he sees among the ruins.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

If you can’t make it good, at least make it look good.

Let us have no machine-made ornament at all; it is all bad and worthless and ugly.

I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists.

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

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations. Examples include the double helix in biology and the fundamental equations of physics.