Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.

Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be.

If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened.

Beauty has as many meanings as man has moods. Beauty is the symbol of symbols. Beauty reveals everything, because it expresses nothing. When it shows us itself, it shows us the whole fiery-coloured world.

Chance gives rise to thoughts, and chance removes them; no art can keep or acquire them.

When I’m writing a record, I kind of don’t listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.

The sky is the daily bread of the eyes.

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

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.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Art is never finished, only abandoned.

Life is a song to me.

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

You cannot be creative with people around you.

Sometimes people make it seem like you have to have certain prerequisites or a crazy life story in order to be successful in this world. But the truth is you really don’t.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I’m telling you there is hope. I have seen it, but it does not come from the governments or corporations. It comes from the people.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God’s final word on where your lips end.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

I love those who do not know how to live for today.

Love is easy, and I love writing. You can’t resist love. You get an idea, someone says something, and you’re in love.

In art, the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can imagine.

How sweet is the perception of a new natural fact!

I’m no natural beauty. If I’m gonna have any looks at all, I’m gonna have to create them.

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

If you are going to write, say, fantasy – stop reading fantasy. You’ve already read too much. Read other things; read westerns, read history, read anything that seems interesting, because if you only read fantasy and then you start to write fantasy, all you’re going to do is recycle the same old stuff and move it around a bit.

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

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.

I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

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

Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.

God’s mercy and grace give me hope – for myself, and for our world.

With a tree, all the growth takes place at the growing tips. Humanity is exactly the same. All the growth takes place in the growing tip: among that one percent of the population. It’s made up of pioneers, the beginners. That’s where the action is.

All of my writing is God-given.

A good thing to remember is somebody’s got it a lot worse than we do.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

There are no such things as Flowers there are only gladdened Leaves.

Music has the power to inspire the world.

Stay hungry, stay foolish.

Art is the proper task of life.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

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

No sanction can stand against ignited minds.

Every bit of me is devoted to love and art. And I aspire to try to be a teacher to my young fans who feel just like I felt when I was younger. I just felt like a freak. I guess what I’m trying to say is I’m trying to liberate them, I want to free them of their fears and make them feel that they can make their own space in the world.

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

I always had faith in my creative capacity.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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 knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else.

Nature knows no pause in progress and development, and attaches her curse on all inaction.

There wasn’t much as a kid that inspired me in what I did as an adult, but I was always very interested in what motivates people, and in telling stories and building things.

Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicates both the holder and beholder.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we’re all sweating it – when we’re worried that the bill won’t pass, and it seems like all is lost – Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward… with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.