Everybody’s got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection, love is born.

Consider a tree for a moment. As beautiful as trees are to look at, we don’t see what goes on underground – as they grow roots. Trees must develop deep roots in order to grow strong and produce their beauty. But we don’t see the roots. We just see and enjoy the beauty. In much the same way, what goes on inside of us is like the roots of a tree.

Temptation is an irresistible force at work on a movable body.

Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be.

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That’s how the human species has done as well as it has.

Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

What makes us human, I think, is an ability to ask questions, a consequence of our sophisticated spoken language.

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

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

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

But men are men; the best sometimes forget.

It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts.

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.

The good is the beautiful.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

I think we’re going to the moon because it’s in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It’s by the nature of his deep inner soul… we’re required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

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

Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.

You’re never going to kill storytelling, because it’s built into the human plan. We come with it.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.

Young people can create beautiful things.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

I never expect to see a perfect work from an imperfect man.

A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we’re children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they’re scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it’s pretty much in the eye of the beholder.

I have talked with great men, and I do not see how they differ from others.

Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

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

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

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.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

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

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

Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.

Is the babe young? When I behold it, it seems more venerable than the oldest man.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

The South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.

Desire is the essence of a man.

A people free to choose will always choose peace.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other’s happiness, not by each other’s misery.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.

Life is abundant, and life is beautiful. And it’s a good place that we’re all in, you know, on this earth, if we take care of it.

Men always want and love when women wear tight and fitted clothing, right? And you’re like, ‚Wow, she looks so beautiful.‘ And then you have men who dress like slobs, and you’re like, ‚What’s the deal with these big and baggy suits.‘ It’s pretty ridiculous.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

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

Plain women know more about men than beautiful women do.