Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony.

I always teach myself calm and visualization stuff.

The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.

Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.

Even when you’re 50, you can make the effort to improve your standards.

Humility is not something that comes naturally. But it is a cardinal virtue that should be pursued more than any other.

I think everybody has something that they’ve been obsessed about in their lifetime.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

I wouldn’t wanna go out not looking like the Dolly people have come to know, because I’ve come to know her that way, too.

The doer alone learneth.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.

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.

Make yourself necessary to somebody.

Britishness is just a way of putting things together and a certain don’t care attitude about clothes. You don’t care, you just do it and it looks great.

My style offstage is so different from onstage. I love a pair of sexy heels with jeans, a nice jacket, or a little dress.

Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.

Practice yourself, for heaven’s sake in little things, and then proceed to greater.

I can be a cruel person.

It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Yes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.

Being happy is a matter of personal taste.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

At the core, one of my original goals is to redefine what the streets expect.

The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won’t be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don’t wear a hat, there’s no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

Do we not realize that self respect comes with self reliance?

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.

A man’s delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

I like to look good, my friend.

The moment the alarm goes off is the first test; it sets the tone for the rest of the day. The test is not a complex one: when the alarm goes off, do you get up out of bed, or do you lie there in comfort and fall back to sleep? If you have the discipline to get out of bed, you win – you pass the test.

My whole thing now is I know how to think properly to be successful in all aspects of my life. It’s not about ultra running or being a SEAL or pull-up records: it’s about if you want to be better you, have to change your perceived limitations and take the barriers down.

We should seek the greatest value of our action.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I have learned that I really do have discipline, self-control, and patience. But they were given to me as a seed, and it’s up to me to choose to develop them.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

The more nobly a man wills and acts, the more avid he becomes for great and sublime aims to pursue. He will no longer be content with family, country, and the remunerative aspect of his work. He will want wider organisations to create, new paths to blaze, causes to uphold, truths to discover, an ideal to cherish and defend.

It’s not fun to get out of bed early in the morning. When the alarm goes off, it doesn’t sing you a song: it hits you in the head with a baseball bat. So how do you respond to that? Do you crawl underneath your covers and hide? Or do you get up, get aggressive, and attack the day?

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

Intelligent people should learn from their experiences. With people on the street, the bad experience has beaten them.

I am two with nature.

It is easier to feel than to realize, or in any way explain, Yosemite grandeur. The magnitudes of the rocks and trees and streams are so delicately harmonized, they are mostly hidden.

We do not see people as they are, but as they appear to us. And these appearances are usually misleading.

Be a player; don’t play yourself. And don’t play basketball. That’s not your sport, Jeb Bush.

Designers want me to dress like Spring, in billowing things. I don’t feel like Spring. I feel like a warm red Autumn.

I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

I never expected to see the day when girls would get sunburned in the places they now do.

Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

I’m 5’11, so when I wear heels, it’s definitely a really good view that I have. I’m, like, 6’2 when I wear heels, so I tend to wear cowboy boots a lot.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

Joan of Arc had style. Jesus had style.

Highly functioning self-actualized people simply never imagine what it is that they don’t wish to have as their reality.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.

Time is kind of an amazing thing because you can do so much with it. I think people underestimate time… I don’t want to just sit on my phone for hours.